21.   Legal experts say that under international maritime law, uninhabited small islands cannot be used as starting points for declaring the exclusive economic zone.

22.   Maritime nations have seen the potential of the ship-borne helicopters as a cheap platform to patrol and enforce their claim over exclusive economic zone.

23.   South Korea said its fishermen have the right to fish there until a new treaty is concluded on the exclusive economic zones.

24.   South Korea says both countries must stick to their old territorial waters until they settle disputes over how to draw their exclusive economic zones under the U.N. convention.

25.   South Korea says its fishermen have the right to fish there until a bilateral treaty is concluded on the exclusive economic zones.

26.   The conflict over the island reignited recently after both countries planned to declare exclusive economic zones around it.

27.   The Chinese warship forced the U.S. Navy survey ship to turn away and shadowed it out of waters that China regards as its exclusive economic zone, he said.

28.   The dispute erupted last month when both countries said they intended to declare exclusive economic zones over the islands, which are valued mainly for the surrounding fishing waters.

29.   The disputed area in the East China Sea overlaps an exclusive economic zone South Korea wants to establish around its shores, the officials said.

30.   The key stumbling block for a new agreement was different positions on exactly how large the exclusive fishing zone around their shores should be.