By Ellen Tordesillas, VERA Files
The Philippines submitted its Memorial before the Arbitral Tribunal of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in The Hague, Netherlands in the suit it filed to nullify China’s 9-dash line map, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said today.
China’s reaction: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xwfw/s2510/t1142356.shtml
Del Rosario said the 4,000 page Memorial consisting of 10 volumes “demonstrates that the Arbitral Tribunal has jurisdiction “over the case and that every claim in the Statement of Claim filed on Jan. 22, 2013 “is meritorious.”
China’s 9-dash line map covers almost the whole of South China Sea and encroaches on several parts of Philippine territory.