China tells a UN body that it enjoys 'sovereign rights and jurisdiction' over the Palawan-Mindoro Microcontinent
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China claims a huge part of the South China Sea as its own and rejects a 2016 Arbitral Ruling, which affirmed the extent of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone and deemed China’s sweeping claim and invalid. This marked the second submission of the Philippines on an ECS entitlement. The first submission was in 2009 related to The Kalayaan Island Group is the farthest island territory of the Philippines on the west and is located beyond its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. Pag-asa Island, where a civilian population lives, is part of the Kalayaan Island Group.
Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary for Maritime and Ocean Affairs Marshall Louis Alferez have said that the submission “does not prejudice discussions with relevant coastal states that may have legitimate ECS claims measured from their respective lawful baselines under UNCLOS” and only seeks to “puts on record the maximum extent of entitlement.”
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