Via inquirerdotnet Though no agreement was reached, he said, the two leaders vowed to work closer for a regional code of conduct to manage the territorial disputes in the resource-rich waterway. Read more:
“The President said, ‘I didn’t want to alarm you with what I’m about to raise because of your problem in Hong Kong, which is why I’m asking for forgiveness, but I need to say this because I promised my countrymen,” presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on Sunday, quoting the President as telling Xi.
Though no agreement was reached, he said, the two leaders vowed to work closer for a regional code of conduct to manage the territorial disputes in the resource-rich waterway.Disclosing more details of the Aug. 29 bilateral meeting, Panelo said the President was “unequivocal but friendly” in invoking the ruling of the UN-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Mr. Duterte had adamantly refused to assert the ruling, preferring to improve relations with China to obtain aid, loans and investment.The Philippines under President Benigno Aquino III challenged in the Hague court in 2013 China’s claim that it owned more than 80 percent of the South China Sea, which includes waters in the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Two weeks after the President assumed office in 2016, the tribunal ruled that China’s claim had no basis in international law and that it had violated the Philippines’ sovereign right to fish and explore resources in the West Philippine Sea, the waters within the country’s 370-km exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
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