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by Ben Dooley ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AFP) — Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing’s rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), held every two years and which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is supposed to be a venue for increasing cooperation across the Eurasian region and exploring ways to […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will skip the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Mongolia to be held from July 15 to 16. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar said, “the president wishes to stay close to his countrymen in the first few months of his presidency.” President Duterte is just on his second week in office. The ASEM is an exclusively Asian–European forum addressing political, economic and cultural issues with […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippines is set to raise the issue of the historic ruling on the South China Sea or West Philippine Sea maritime dispute at the Asia-Europe Summit, known as ASEM, in Mongolia. Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay will attend the said summit which begins tomorrow, July 15. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs Said Secretary Yasay will discuss within the context of ASEM’s agenda the Philippines’ peaceful and […]
A senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday that the South China Sea is not on the agenda and should not be discussed at a major summit between Asian and European leaders in Mongolia at the end of the week.
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The South China Sea is not on the agenda and should not be discussed at a major summit between Asian and European leaders in Mongolia at the end of the week attended by China’s premier, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday (July 11). The Asia-Europe Meeting, or ASEM, will be the first important diplomatic gathering after the July 12 ruling by an arbitration court hearing a dispute between China and […]
