Southeast Asian leaders optimistic on Thursday proposed an ambitious plan, the welding area to contend with the Asian powerhouse China-EU economic and social progress, efforts to delay the South China Sea disputes.
In Brunei to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit leaders had hoped that China will soon agree to start negotiations in the non-aggression treaty to prevent its strong economic growth can be sucked out of a major conflict in the disputed territory.
However, China does not have clear instructions, it will agree to negotiate such a piecemeal, stop-gap agreement, known as ASEAN, the "Code of Conduct".
"Everyone interested in the peaceful settlement of, and the concerns expressed by maritime disputes has been increasing," Philippine President Benigno Aquino III told reporters after he and other Heads of State sitting on Wednesday in the traditional dinner.
Although overshadowed by security issues, the ASEAN an ambitious plan to transform itself into a community similar to the European Union more than 600 million people by the end of 2015, has led to more optimistic, and the diplomat said, the orbit of the European Union to to meet the deadline.
About 77% of the work, turn into a single market and production base in the downtown area, first developed in 2007, the blueprint has been completed, according to a confidential draft statement issued after the summit.
9 in the Group of 10 leaders huddled behind closed doors on Thursday ordered the establishment of a cavernous hemangioma, stone and marble building Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the annual two-day summit. Absent from any meeting: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib the (Najib Rasak), who re-election back home.
Extensive study of territorial conflicts, expert Carl Thayer said, ASEAN agreed to a key process can be easily stalled, China will not make any promise to limit its plans may have committed a strategic error.
"ASEAN is stuck in the rut of a bureaucratic," Thayer said.
Have potentially oil-rich areas in the South China Sea, the Battle of uneasy stations since settled into the final battle, involving China and Vietnam in 1988, more than 70 Vietnamese sailors were killed. The other claimants are Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan.
However, the new small-scale conflict broke out in the past two years, involving Vietnam, the Philippines and China, claiming that the busy waterway almost the whole text.
Concern has been exacerbated by China's deployment of patrol boats, equipped with a helipad, to guard against the claimed area, and established last year what they call Sasha city on the island from the south of Hainan 350 km (220 miles) are controversial areas Management opponent claims countries.
Broke out between China and the Philippines vessels over Scarborough Shoal à tense confrontation last year is still pending, prompting the Philippines in January to take a bold legal steps to challenge China's vast claims before a court under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. But ignored China Mobile.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said all 5 arbitrator has been appointed to the Tribunal, they can now start looking into the case, and if they announced that they have jurisdiction.
Long-term threat of raging disputes split ASEAN. After the failure of last year, the Foreign Minister issued a joint statement - the first 45 years of history in the European Union - Cambodia refused territory cracks mentioned in the communique, Vietnam and the Philippines to provoke protest.
Cambodia, known as an ally of China, has been towed away disputes should not be brought to a trip to Beijing in the international arena. What China wants, which will give it the advantage of one because of its huge size and each rival claimant to resolve the dispute through negotiations.
During the summit, ASEAN leaders also expressed concern over North Korea's latest threat.
 
 



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