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ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« on: August 10, 2015, 02:10:23 PM »

from the Joint Communiqué 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4th August 2015


REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

South China Sea

150. We discussed extensively the matters relating to the South China  Sea and remained seriously concerned over recent and ongoing developments in the area. We took note of the serious concerns expressed by some Ministers on the land reclamations in the South China Sea, which have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and may undermine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2015, 02:11:50 PM »

151. We reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace, security,  stability, and freedom of navigation in and over-flight above the South China Sea. We emphasised the need for all parties to ensure the full and  effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) in its entirety: to build, maintain and enhance mutual trust and confidence; to exercise self-restraint in the conduct of activities that would complicate or escalate disputes; to not to resort to threat or use of force; and for the parties concerned to resolve their  differences and disputes through peaceful means, in accordance with  universally recognised principles of international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2015, 02:13:09 PM »

152. We looked forward to the effective implementation of the agreed  Early Harvest Measures to enhance mutual trust and confidence as well as to build a conducive environment for the maintenance of peace, security and stability in the region. We tasked our Senior Officials to continue  working on this matter, and to further explore other initiatives, in pursuit of these objectives.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2015, 02:14:06 PM »

153. While noting the progress made in the consultations on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC), we reiterated the importance of  expeditious establishment of an effective COC. To this end, we welcomed the recent outcome of the 9th ASEAN-China SOM on the Implementation of the DOC whereby they agreed to proceed to the next stage of consultations and negotiate the framework, structure, elements as well as to address crucial, difficult and complicated issues relating to the proposed COC. We, therefore, tasked our Senior Officials to follow up and  work closely with China on this matter.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2015, 02:14:49 PM »

154. Pursuant to the full and effective implementation of the DOC in its  entirety, and  while the work towards the expeditious establishment of the COC are undertaken, we agreed that preventive measures should be undertaken to address developments in the South China Sea, with the objective, among others, to enhance trust and confidence amongst parties.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2015, 02:15:15 PM »

155. We took note of Indonesia’s proposal to establish a hotline of communications at  the high level in the government between ASEAN and China to address emergency situations on the ground that need immediate intervention, which aim to immediately reduce tensions on the ground.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2015, 02:15:39 PM »

156. We discussed extensively the matters related to the progress of the COC. The Philippines briefed the Meeting on further developments including matters particularly relating to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Link for the whole text of the ASEAN Joint Communique:  http://www.asean.org/images/2015/August/48th_amm/JOINT%20COMMUNIQUE%20OF%20THE%2048TH%20AMM-FINAL.pdf

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2015, 02:38:23 PM »

in an earlier ASEAN meeting when the chair, ASEAN member cambodia, followed  china's demand:

The Phnom Penh debacle of 2012

Nine of the ten foreign ministers were amenable to acknowledging these two elephants, but the tenth, the chair himself, would have none of it – obviously out of deference to a China that didn’t want any multilateral discussion on its claim to most of the South China Sea.

The ministerial meeting was therefore deadlocked on this matter. The hours passed, the deadlock hardened. Finally it was announced that there’d be no joint communique. It was a diplomatic coup for China at the expense of Asean.

- extract from http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/never-again-should-asean-kowtow-to-china-jamil-maidan-flores#sthash.06wIL8FC.dpuf

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2015, 02:49:50 PM »

Phnom Penh, Jul 17, 2012

As Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario began to raise the sensitive issue of the South China Sea at one of last week's Asian summit meetings, his microphone went dead.

A technical glitch, said the Cambodian hosts. Perhaps something more sinister, hinted some diplomats who were frustrated by Chinese ally Cambodia's dogged efforts to keep the subject off the agenda.

That account and others, described to Reuters by diplomats with direct knowledge of the talks and who asked not to be identified, reveals how deeply Southeast Asian nations have been polarized by China's rapidly expanding influence in the region.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2015, 02:57:00 PM »

The fast-growing 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which aims to form an EU-style economic bloc by 2015, insists it remains united despite its failure for the first time in 45 years to agree a concluding summit statement.

But Reuters' interviews reveal deep discord and frayed tempers at last week's summit that are sharply at odds with the group's self-styled reputation for harmony and polite debate.

"It was one of the most heated meetings in the history of ASEAN," one diplomat said. Another described Cambodia, which holds the revolving ASEAN chairmanship this year, as "the worst chair", and said China had effectively bought its loyalty and that of some other states with economic largesse.



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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2015, 02:58:03 PM »

The breakdown has left attempts to craft a maritime "code of conduct" this year between ASEAN and China in tatters, raising the risk that growing incidents of naval brinkmanship over the oil-rich waters will spill over into conflict.

It also underlines the huge challenge facing the United States as it refocuses its military and economic attention on Asia in response to China's rise. The South China Sea has become Asia's biggest potential military flashpoint as Beijing's sovereignty claims set it against Vietnam and the Philippines racing to tap possibly huge oil reserves.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2015, 05:20:09 PM »

CHINA BREACHES INNER SANCTUM

The failure touched on a long-standing ASEAN fear, says Carlyle Thayer, an emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy -- that lack of unity would allow foreign powers to exploit its differences.

"This is the first major breach of the dyke of regional autonomy," he said. "China has now reached into ASEAN's inner sanctum and played on intra-ASEAN divisions."

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has angrily rejected suggestions that China has "bought" Cambodia's support over the South China Sea dispute. China's foreign direct investment in Cambodia was $1.2 billion in 2011, almost 10 times that of the United States, according to an estimate by the government's Council for the Development of Cambodia. Chinese investment and trade has also surged in neighboring Myanmar and Laos.


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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2015, 05:20:44 PM »

Cambodia batted away repeated attempts to raise the issue about the disputed waters during the ASEAN meeting last week as well as the ASEAN Regional Forum, which includes Japan and the United States, according to diplomats present.

ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan was cut off in mid-address by Cambodia's foreign minister as he tried to bring up the topic, said several Southeast Asia diplomats.

Del Rosario's microphone malfunction occurred at a Thursday morning ministerial meeting, diplomats said, as he raised the issue despite Cambodia's insistence that it should not be discussed. A Cambodian foreign ministry spokesman said it was "craziness" to suggest that it was switched off deliberately.

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Re: ASEAN Statement on the South China Sea, 2015
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2015, 08:07:10 PM »
Phnom Penh, Jul 17, 2012

As Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario began to raise the sensitive issue of the South China Sea at one of last week's Asian summit meetings, his microphone went dead.

A technical glitch, said the Cambodian hosts. Perhaps something more sinister, hinted some diplomats who were frustrated by Chinese ally Cambodia's dogged efforts to keep the subject off the agenda.

That account and others, described to Reuters by diplomats with direct knowledge of the talks and who asked not to be identified, reveals how deeply Southeast Asian nations have been polarized by China's rapidly expanding influence in the region.

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