“Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – inseparable parts of Vietnam” exhibition opens in Da Nang

(Cinet)- On June 21, Da Nang Museum in collaboration with Da Nang University, Pham Van Dong University and Da Nang Historical science Association held an exhibition entitled “Hoang Sa – Truong Sa- inseparable parts of Vietnam”.

The exhibition is a part of international conference themed ‘Hoang Sa – Truong Sa: Historical Truth’.

A number of maps, pictures, and documents in Han (classical Chinese used in Vietnam), Nom (Vietnamese ideographic script), Vietnamese and French languages issued by Vietnamese feudal states from the 17th to 19th centuries are now on display.

Evidence on show has helped debunk the distorting history as well as the ambiguous and illegal territorial claims of China over the two archipelagos and other parts of Vietnamese waters in the East Sea.

All exhibits declare that Vietnamese States have long established and exercised their sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos without interruption.

Ancient maps of Vietnam, China and other western countries dated to the 16th to 18th century highlighting parts of these groups of islands, along with four atlases published in the UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, the US and Hong Kong (China) during the 1626-1980 period, all demonstrate Hoang Sa and Truong Sa are within Vietnam’s territorial waters.

A world atlas drawn by Belgian geographer Phillippe Vandermaelen and published in 1827 described Hoang Sa archipelago as belonging to the former Empire of An Nam, now Vietnam.

During the period of French colonisation of Vietnam (from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century), France, in the name of Vietnam, continued to exercise management of the two archipelagoes of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa. From the 1930s, France integrated the two archipelagoes into Vietnam’s mainland provinces and stationed troops there. Later, under the Geneva Accords of 1954, France handed them over to the Saigon administration – the government of the Republic of Vietnam. Since 1975 when the south of Vietnam was completely liberated, the two archipelagoes have been put under the management of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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