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| Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong speaks during the 20th ASEAN summit at the Peace Palace in the Office of the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh on Monday. ASEAN foreign ministers started a one-day meeting on Monday to discuss regional issues including the territorial dispute over the South China Sea. (Reuters Photo) |
April 02, 2012
Agence France-Presse
Southeast Asian foreign ministers wrangled Monday over a proposed code of conduct aimed at easing dangerous maritime disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea.
But Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers meeting in Cambodia said they still hoped to narrow their differences and sign the code with China by the end of the year.
The Philippines is urging its ASEAN counterparts to first agree on a common position before meeting with China, but others argued Beijing should be involved from the start, diplomatic sources said.
“I think the difference of opinion lies in the fact that we are advocating that a draft of the COC (code of conduct) be prepared before we sit down with China,” Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said in Phnom Penh.
“Others are taking the view that China should be invited to come in for the initial discussion.”
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said ASEAN should hear China’s views before presenting Beijing with a draft code.
He said it was important to “listen and we hear what China’s views are so that we can really develop a position that is cohesive and coherent”.
During Indonesia’s chairmanship of the regional bloc least year, ASEAN and China agreed on a set of guidelines for the proposed code, ending a nine-year impasse.
A senior Southeast Asian diplomat told AFP that countries were also divided on whether to include a dispute settlement mechanism in the code.
ASEAN members Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam along with China and Taiwan have overlapping claims in the South China Sea, a conduit for more than one-third of the world’s seaborne trade and half its traffic in oil and gas.
The Philippines and Vietnam accuse China of aggressively asserting its claims in recent years, leading to minor clashes that diplomats and military commanders fear could quickly escalate into major conflicts.
“The Philippines hopes that the code of conduct will be a real ‘move forward’ not merely in terms of form, but more importantly in substance,” del Rosario said.
Still, he said he hoped ASEAN and China would sign the code this year during Cambodia’s chairmanship of the regional bloc.
6 comments:
Cambodia is the most corrupt country in the world, which violate all kind of human rights. Money talks for Cambodia regardless of any thing. That's why China throw more than half of billions bucks to Cambodia not to talk about it in the meeting which upset a lot of countries.
Does Cambodia HUN SEN care?
Whose idea to appoint Cambodia to be a chair of ASEAN?
shut up, ok! your country is the most corrupted in the world, not my country cambodia, ok! so don't even go there, ok! didn't i tell you, i hated biased people toward cambodia. now you know!
7:34 AM Vietnamese Whore, are you the only one who doesnt know that Cambodia is the most corrupted country in the world?
Who give a shit about Viets and Filipino. Cambodia should continue strategic partners with PRC. she always standby to helps Cambodia diplomatically and military through every Cambidian Regimes. Where are Vietnam and Philipines when the Thai thieves trying to take areas around Preah Vihear Temple, Ta Moan,
Ta Krabey ruins. Also this stupid ASEAN is ONLY look out for themselves. Otherwise they would had pressured Thailand to stop her aggression on Cambodia.
Clearly areas belong to Cambodia according to International recognized treaties map. Did you guys noticed that this so call ASEAN dragged their feet in sending in Indonesian observers, still not there after three years.
Vietnam is the country that stole our land and Islands, sea areas. Now how do they feel now when China claimed this South China sea islands. How about Cambodia's land and Islands Viets stole from us.
Hey Filipinos why dont you guy go and begged the U. S navy to come back and rescue you. Oh why don't you sell more Filipinas women to GI. Me love you long time. Lol
Keep borrow from the Chinese soon China and Vietnam will used Cambodia country as a battle ground for the next war. Cambodia will get involed in others war with Viet and Chi war.
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