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US: China, Russia block Asean statement on SCS
The Philippine Star
|October 14, 2024
WASHINGTON – Russia and China blocked a proposed consensus statement for the East Asia Summit drafted by Southeast Asian countries, mainly over objections to language on the contested South China Sea, a US official told Reuters on Saturday.
A draft statement arrived at by consensus by the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was put to the 18-nation East Asia Summit meeting in Laos on Thursday evening, the official said.
"ASEAN presented this final draft and said that, essentially, this was a take-it-or-leave-it draft," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and India all said they could support it, the official said, adding: "The Russians and the Chinese said that they could not and would not proceed with a statement."
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