(VOVWORLD) -EU special envoy to the Indo-Pacific region Richard Tibbels said that one of the areas of capacity building that the EU wants to focus on in the Philippines is to step up its naval visits and engage in joint military training exercises. EU special envoy to the Indo-Pacific region Richard Tibbels (Photo: AP) He said in Malina that the EU intends to increase its naval presence in the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam), in order to show its importance, to help uphold freedom of mobility and international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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