Asian nations under pressure to ease sea tensions
Clinton urges ‘progress’ of a code of conduct in
South China Sea:
Southeast Asian nations were to hold crunch
talks yesterday on easing friction in the South China Sea as the US
called for progress on the thorny issue at the start of a regional
security forum. Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of
Southeast Asian Nations are gathering in the Cambodian capital
before being joined later this week by US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and 16 other counterparts including China, Japan and the
Koreas for the ASEAN Regional Forum.
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EU’s Ashton begins five-day Asian tour
‘We are inter-dependent equals who share broad
common interests’:
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton left
Sunday for Beijing where she will hold talks on foreign affairs and
security issues on the first leg of a five-day Asian tour. “Our
partnership with China is one of inter-dependent equals who share
broad common interests, and we have an obligation to engage on a
wide range of global issues,” Ashton said in a departure statement.
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