framework agreement on the peaceful settlement of the territorial dispute
The two countries had a territorial dispute over which one owned the island.
More than 400 Thai troops and over 800 Cambodian soldiers stationed near the Preah Vihear temple Thursday in a standoff over a heated territorial dispute.
Though analysts don't think the current tension will escalate and draw in the U.S. military treaty obligations, the agreements add murk to an already muddy territorial dispute.
A mountain pass has been renamed after Cardinal Antonio Samorè, who before his death in 1983 helped settle a territorial dispute that could have led to war.
The declaration of an overlapping area where China could theoretically defend its interests has opened up a new dimension in the long-running territorial dispute between Asia's two largest economies.
That won't solve the territorial disputes, but it should make confrontations less likely.
Under aquino, the Philippines and China's territorial disputes submitted to international arbitration, triggered a fierce opposition from China.
Smith rejected suggestions that the assessment was being undertaken in part because of China's military growth or its territorial disputes in the south China Sea.
I have also considered the possibility of resolving certain territorial disputes by having the countries concerned jointly develop the disputed areas before discussing the question of sovereignty.
QUESTION: Thank you. Foreign Minister Yang, your ministry spokesman said this week that countries outside the region shouldn't intervene in China Seas territorial disputes.
Nanfeng Chuang, a weekly magazine, reported on April1 st that Japan“ naturally” had concerns about China's military expansion, given its territorial disputes with its neighbour— a departure in the press from the usual claims of a resurgent Japanese militarism.
In a surprisingly short time, a wide range of topics has come up: economic and environmental co-operation; mechanisms to ease territorial disputes in the East China Sea, complicated by possibly large deposits of gas and oil; even confidence-building measures between the two countries' armed forces.
