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| 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.
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.
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