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ASEAN leaders agree on '2-step approach' to sea dispute
Topic Started: Apr 25 2013, 04:23 PM (655 Views)
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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BRUNEI—ASEAN leaders agreed on a “two-step approach” to deal with territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

In a press conference after the ASEAN summit, summit chair Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah reported on the “progress” in dealing with maritime disputes with the leaders reaffirming their commitment to a peaceful resolution of territorial disputes and agreeing to work with China for the “early conclusion” of a Code of Conduct (COC) “on the basis of consensus.”

“We have agreed on what I see as a two-step approach. Firstly, the overlapping claims are for the claimant states to deal with. Secondly, both ASEAN and China wish to promote a calm and peaceful atmosphere and to urgently work on the Code of Conduct,” Bolkiah said.

“We would like all parties concerned to seize the current positive momentum and to reach an agreement on the Code of Conduct. And we all agree to encourage continuing discussion, dialogue, and consultation in all levels especially among claimant countries and to keep the lines of communication open.”

The leaders also called “for the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties between ASEAN and China.”


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ASEAN reboots on South China Sea

By Vignesh Ram

Recent Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) summit meetings have been subsumed by unresolved territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The controversy has not only strained ASEAN's key operating principles, including consensus among its 10 member states, but has also highlighted the rising rivalry between China and United States, two countries which are jostling for a strategic upper hand in Southeast Asia.

The unresolved and escalating issue has raised questions on the often celebrated success of regionalism in Southeast Asia, particularly with the implementation of a new ASEAN Economic Community scheduled for 2015. Questions are thus rising over whether ASEAN can stick to its founding objective of maintaining a unified, strategic balance against larger regional powers, namely China.

Pragmatic leadership has been the glue that has held ASEAN together and guided the grouping through difficult strategic issues in the past. The debacle of last year's ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh, where group members failed for the first time in the association's history to issue a joint statement, highlighted the growing inherent contradictions and competing national agendas of member states.

Cambodia's stance against including any mention of the South China Sea disputes in a joint communique was viewed as acquiescence to external Chinese pressure. Perceptions of outside manipulation of the association's inner workings was a deciding factor in the Philippines decision to take its complaint against China to a United Nations tribunal rather than rely on ASEAN to arrive at a mutually agreed code of conduct in the South China Sea.

The Philippines' decision to use alternative forums to safeguard its territorial claims vis-a-vis China has weakened ASEAN's standing as a unified bloc. Tensions broke out into the open when President Benigno Aquino openly accused host Cambodia of sabotaging ASEAN's interest for bilateral concessions from China. Indonesia helped to bridge the differences through face-saving shuttle diplomacy, but to many analysts the damage to group cohesion had been done.

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Apr 30 2013, 03:40 PM
ASEAN reboots on South China Sea

By Vignesh Ram

Recent Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) summit meetings have been subsumed by unresolved territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The controversy has not only strained ASEAN's key operating principles, including consensus among its 10 member states, but has also highlighted the rising rivalry between China and United States, two countries which are jostling for a strategic upper hand in Southeast Asia.

The unresolved and escalating issue has raised questions on the often celebrated success of regionalism in Southeast Asia, particularly with the implementation of a new ASEAN Economic Community scheduled for 2015. Questions are thus rising over whether ASEAN can stick to its founding objective of maintaining a unified, strategic balance against larger regional powers, namely China.

Pragmatic leadership has been the glue that has held ASEAN together and guided the grouping through difficult strategic issues in the past. The debacle of last year's ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh, where group members failed for the first time in the association's history to issue a joint statement, highlighted the growing inherent contradictions and competing national agendas of member states.

Cambodia's stance against including any mention of the South China Sea disputes in a joint communique was viewed as acquiescence to external Chinese pressure. Perceptions of outside manipulation of the association's inner workings was a deciding factor in the Philippines decision to take its complaint against China to a United Nations tribunal rather than rely on ASEAN to arrive at a mutually agreed code of conduct in the South China Sea.

The Philippines' decision to use alternative forums to safeguard its territorial claims vis-a-vis China has weakened ASEAN's standing as a unified bloc. Tensions broke out into the open when President Benigno Aquino openly accused host Cambodia of sabotaging ASEAN's interest for bilateral concessions from China. Indonesia helped to bridge the differences through face-saving shuttle diplomacy, but to many analysts the damage to group cohesion had been done.

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