Asean OKs sea code
By AP (The Philippine Star)
July 11, 2012
PHNOM PENH – Ten Southeast Asian nations have agreed on a code of conduct to prevent armed clashes over the South China Sea but still seek to get China to agree to it, a Cambodian official said yesterday.
The agreement was reached at a meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which China does not belong.
The issue of contending maritime claims is the major topic of the talks held in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, in large part because tensions over the sea have escalated in recent months.
Philippine and Chinese ships engaged in a standoff in Panatag Shoal starting in April, and Vietnam last month protested Chinese energy proposals for seas both nations claim.
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