Jan 16, 2012 The Philippines has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to hold a summit of China and five other Asian claimants to try to resolve long-simmering territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said yesterday that he asked his ASEAN counterparts during an annual meeting in Cambodia last week to back the Philippines' call for the 10-member bloc to organise such a summit "as soon as possible".
A resolution of the conflicts should be based on internationally accepted rules such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, he said.
The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, China and Taiwan have overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands, which are believed to have undersea deposits of oil and gas.
AP
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