ASEAN delegation members attend the concluding session at the 20th ASEAN Summit at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Wednesday, 04 April 2012
Reporters, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
"Hun Sen said claims on the South China Sea should remain a regional issue between “Asean and China only.”Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Wednesday that Asean leaders are not ready to sit down with China over the South China Sea until they have agreed on a code of conduct.
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Hun Sen addressed reporters at the end of an Asean summit in Phnom Penh, where discussions on the South China Sea were rushed onto Wednesday’s agenda.
Hun Sen said claims on the South China Sea should remain a regional issue between “Asean and China only,” not an issue requiring outside interference.
Several Asean members, notably the Philippines and Vietnam, have overlapping claims to the sea with China and Taiwan.
Asean leaders also called for renewed six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it a matter of regional security.
“We are calling for concerted international action to persuade North Korea not to proceed with [a nuclear] launch,” said Albert del Rosario, foreign secretary for the Philippines.
Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan called the nuclear issue one of “high concern” to Asean members.
3 comments:
I'm with Hun Sen this one! The claims on South China Sea should remain a regional issue between Asean and China only!! The problem is the OUTSIDER...THE WEST, They are the one kept sticken their nose in and their interference-instigated...They need to back off and shut UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hun sen right on the issue ,but Taiwan is under American influence thatwise the American stick their nose in this issue,to me I want to see China takes the all Yuon land like they did 1000 years ago,so let me ask freaking Yuon question,how do you feel when the aggressor like China wants your sea!? the freaking Yuon stole khmer's land.
Khmers felt the same way you feel now you kooks!..for me bravo China teach Yuon one me lesson....still,Hun sen should be worried about Khmer's land that Yuon&Siam stolen now..
Lets Annam meet one more of China's aaggressor and taste the bitterness of feeling helpless like khmers felt toward Annam&Siam all these years.....go China go China..takes what you want from Annam!...
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