(VOVworld) - Leading Russian experts and researchers on the Asia-Pacific Region discussed legal measures to help secure to peace and stability in the East Sea at a round-table workshop in Moscow on Thursday.

At the workshop (Photo: VNA)

They agreed that the ruling issued by the Arbitrational Tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, on July 12 confirmed that China’s sovereignty claims in the East Sea had no legal foundation. Secretary General of the International Institute for Peace Grigory Lokshin, an expert from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies, said the tribunal’s decision had become a prerequisite condition and laid down a legal foundation for regional parties to push ahead with dialogue and cooperation in the time ahead.

Participants suggested involved parties seek measures to address disputes peacefully, without the use or threat of force, and in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.