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To this set of articles or chapters of books on the question of the Paracels and Spratlys must be added very many articles found in legal journals or in the press, in particular:
L 'Asie Francaise
Dong Thanh
Le Courrier du Vietnam
L 'eveil de l'Indochine
Far Eastern Economic Review
Le Figaro
Le Journal des Coloniaux - l'armee coloniale
Liberation
Mer et Colonies
Le Monde
Le Monde colonial illustre
Le Monde Diplomatique
Newsweek
Pekin - Informations
La Revue generale de droit international public (international events column)
Temps nouveaux
Aves Island case
Netherlands - Venezuela
Award of 30 June 1865
Bulama Island case
Award of 21 April 1870
Case concerning the frontier between British Guiana and Brazil United Kingdom - Brazil
Award of 6 June 1904
Island of Palmas case
United States - Netherlands
Award of 4 April 1928
Clipperton Island case
Mexico - France Award
of 28 January 1931
Minquiers and Ecrehos case
France - United Kingdom Judgment of the International Court of
Justice of 17 November 1953
Eastern Greenland case
Denmark - Norway
Judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice of 5 April 1933
Western Sahara case Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 16
October 1975
Case concerning the delimitation of the maritime frontier between Guinea
and Guinea-Bissau
Judgment of 14 February 1985
Ad hoc documents produced by the Vietnamese government to explain its position;
- Note by the Foreign Ministry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on provocations and incursions into Vietnamese territory by the Chinese authorities in the frontier region, Bulletin du Vietnam, Paris, 15/31 March 1979.
- Vietnam's Sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagos, Information and Press Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hanoi, 1979.
- Les archipels Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, territoire vietnamien, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1981.
- Les archipels Hoang Sa et Truong Sa (Paracels et Spratley), published by the Courrier du Vietnam, Hanoi, 1984.
- Les archipels Hoang Sa (Paracels) et Truong Sa (Spratlys) et le droit international.
- Les nouvelles sinologiques, 1988, No. 5,6,7,8,9,10.
- La souverainete incontestable de la Chine sur les iles Xisha et les iles Nansha, document published by the Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China, 30 January 1980.
- Note to the Soviet government from the Chinese government, 22 March 1951.
- Statement by the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, Chou en-Lai, on the draft peace treaty with Japan and the San Francisco Conference (Beijing, 15 August 1951).
- Report of debates in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union Francaise, 25 March 1952.
-A/43/346/2 May 1988 A/43/363/16 May 1988
ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS The main documents concerning this affair were found:
In the archives of the French Foreign Ministry
Series Asia 1918, 1929
AS- 18-40 China 797, 40-55 China
N.S. China 96, 126, 559-568, 608-612, 597-601
N.S. Indochina 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 17,18, 19-25, 31, 33, 34 volume No. 312 Asia-Oceania, series E, box 117
Boxes Indochina 32, 34, 35, 36
N.F. 225, 268, 271, 610, 684, 662, 1010, 1018, 1024, 1025, 1026, 1859 I.C. boxes 306, 308, 227, 261, 309
Ge D 9210 Guillaume le Testu, 1554
Ge D 8693 Netherlands, possessions, 17th century Ge B 220 Dutch naval chart, 18th century Ge FF 13341 (89) Indochina, 17th century
Ge FF 7909 German map, 1867
Ge D 7552 Tonkin and Cochin China, Paris 1863 Ge D 24950 Indochina, naval charts, 1880
Ge C 21797 Naval charts, 1881
Ge D 817 De Lanessan, 1888
Ge C 3067 Indochina, 1893
Ge B 372 Paire expedition, 1893
Ge AA 25 Vidal Labloche, 1897
Ge C 15245 Girard and Barrere
Ge D 20526 IGN, manual for the use of troops, 1947 Ge CC 3506 Indochina, administration, 1939 Ge D 21832 Indochina, airstrips, 1951
Ge C 5904 Aeronautical Indochina, 1936 Ge D 21831 Indochina, aviation, radio, 1951 Ge DD 2987 China Sea, 1745
Ge D 3610 China Sea, 1792
Ge CC 2301(23)China Sea 1821
Ge C 10431 China Sea, coasts, 1712
Ge C 17228 Indochina, bathymetric and fisheries map Ge C 18375 Political map of Indochina, 1951 Ge C 16640 Provinces of Indochina, 1940 Ge C 4272 Indochina, typhoons
Res. Ge AA 1318 China Sea, Peter Goes, 1680
Res. GeB219 Nautical chart, China Sea, late 17th century Res. Ge B 220 Nautical chart, China Sea, late 17th century Res. Ge B 214 Dutch nautical chart, late 17th century Ge B 1509(6836) Hydrographical map, 18th century
Ge DD 2987 B (7160.61)China Sea, 1740
Ge 2301/17
Paracels (Western Group) by D. Rops, Lieutenant of the Bombay Marine, 1808
C 15165 Ge C Air infrastructure of Indochina, 1939 4269 Ge CC Geographical Service of Indochina, 1911 556 April 1903
The following portfolios were also consulted at the National Library (maps department):
Portfolios 180, 181, 182
The following portfolios were also consulted at the National Library (maps department):
Portfolios 180, 181, 182