Nam Yet Island
Present at the presentation ceremony were Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuong – Rear Admiral, Deputy Political Commissar of the Navy Service together with soldiers and 181 staff members of the information and communication sector, the Party Central Committee’s Propaganda and Educational Board, the Military Supplies Department and the Vietnam Academy of Sciences.
The maps presented include the documents issued by the Vietnamese feudal courts from the 17th to the 20th centuries, affirming Vietnam had exercised its continuous sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and the Truong Sa (Paracel and Spratly) archipelagoes, in which there 19 official documents of the reign of the Nguyen dynasty with the dynasty title from the Minh Mang dynasty (1820 to 1841) to the Bao Dai dynasty (1925 to 1945), reflecting the process of establishing and protecting continuous sovereignty under the Nguyen dynasty, collected and presented by the National Border Committee and researcher Phan Thuan An; the copy 05 in Han Nom, from Gia Long the second (1803) to the 17th Minh Mang (1836), recording the establishment of a squad to make surveys of the areas on the Hoang Sa archipelago; besides, there are the sets of 60 maps proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes which the West and China had published since the 16th century. At the same time, there are 15 administrative copies in the French time and the Republic of Vietnam affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa archipelago.
Vice Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung spoke highly of the firm spirit and encouraged all people in defending the country’s sovereignty over the sea and islands on Son Ca and Nam Yet islands. At the hand-over ceremony, the Vice Minister of Information and Communications asked the officers and men on Nam Yet Island to regularly organize the display of the documents and maps affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over the islands as well as the official documents of the feudal dynasties and the legal documents stating the sovereignty over the sea and island for the soldiers and people who come to visit the Island./.
