Also, iPhones were chosen for the tantrum because there was a ban against iPhone 6 models in China last month, prompted by Chinese regulators finding that the design of Apple’s product “closely resembled a phone from a Chinese competitor”.
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The global tribunal reached the verdict on Tuesday.
“There is indeed a confusion”, Andrey Poskakukhin, head of the ICJ’s Information Department, told Xinhua in a telephone interview.
China is now mustering all its resources to counter the South China Sea judgement by a five-member global tribunal appointed by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) which has struck down its “nine-dash line” claim on nearly all of the South China Sea that was based on its arguments that the islands and reefs were discovered and administered by the Chinese for over 2,000 years.
“The ICJ, which is a totally distinct institution, has had no involvement in the above mentioned case and, for that reason, there is no information about it on the ICJ’s website”, it said.
“The Australian Government calls on the Philippines and China to abide by the ruling, which is final and binding on both parties”, Bishop said.
While ASEAN member nations Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines have expressed criticism toward China’s territorial claims over more than 80 percent of the South China Sea, Laos and Cambodia prefer to side with their big neighbor.
Instead, Yasay would represent the country in the event, the first global gathering where the country’s new leader will miss the chance to discuss the Philippines’ fresh victory in the arbitration case that challenged Beijing’s claim to the whole of the South China Sea.
“The Arbitral Tribunal has no jurisdiction over the subject-matters of the arbitration”.
In a post on its Sina Weibo account, the United Nations pointed out that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the UN’s principal judicial organ.
The ad hoc tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration does not belong to the PCA and only enjoys the secretarial services offered by the PCA, which includes helping appoint experts, publish information and press releases, organize tribunals in The Hague and pay arbitrators and other staff for their services.
Diokno also noted that the problem with the arbitration court’s decision was about enforceability – as the PCA had no implementing arm.
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The Chinese foreign ministry didn’t respond to a request to comment.
