
By Viet Anh September 17, 2020 | 08:10 pm GMT+7 vnexpress
Vietnam on Thursday reaffirmed its sovereignty after the U.S. Embassy removed from its Facebook page an accurate Vietnamese map including its East Sea archipelagos.
“Vietnam has consistently maintained the Hoang Sa (Paracel Islands) and Truong Sa (Spratly Islands) as inseparable parts of the Vietnamese territory. This consistent stance has been taken multiple times in multiple forms, including at the United Nations, and is supported and respected by many countries,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a press meet Thursday afternoon.