TOKYO (Reuters) - Vietnam wants a peaceful settlement to a territorial row with China that flared up after Beijing deployed an oil rig to disputed waters in the South China Sea, and is closely following a case brought by the Philippines to an arbitration tribunal in The Hague in a separate maritime row with China, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said on Thursday.
In an interview with Reuters, Dam repeated Hanoi's demand that China withdraw the oil rig from waters that Vietnam considers its own, but said Vietnam was not setting a deadline for meeting its demand.
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