Balanced News: Vietnam, Indonesia wrap up talks on exclusive economic zones

Vietnam and Indonesia have concluded negotiations on the boundaries of both countries’ exclusive economic zones (EEZ), a move praised by regional analysts but one likely to irk China. “After 12 years of intensive negotiations, Indonesia and Vietnam have finally concluded negotiations on the EEZ boundaries of the two countries based on the 1982 UNCLOS,” said Indonesian President Joko Widodo after meeting with his visiting counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday at the Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java. UNCLOS is the abbreviation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – a document to which Vietnam, Indonesia and China are signatories.