Indonesia ready to work with countries to finalize South China Sea code

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Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi says her country is ready to work with other Southeast Asian nations to finalize a long-delayed code of conduct for the South China Sea.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-ready-to-work-with-countries-to-finalize-south-china-sea-code/

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00:00 Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi says her country is ready to work with other

00:05 Southeast Asian nations to finalize a long-delayed code of conduct for the South China Sea.

00:11 Marsudi says this alongside Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo in Manila ahead of

00:16 a planned visit by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

00:20 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN and China, have been trying to negotiate

00:24 a code of conduct since 2002.

00:27 The code is supposed to set guidelines for the behavior of vessels in the South China

00:30 Sea amid tense territorial disputes and to prevent or manage misencounters.

00:36 But progress has been slow despite commitments to fast-track the process, largely due to

00:40 disagreements among the governments involved.

00:43 China claims almost the entire South China Sea with its so-called Nine-Dash Line, which

00:48 broadly overlaps with the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the

00:52 Philippines and Vietnam.

00:54 A 2016 international arbitral tribunal ruling invalidated most of China's claims, a decision

01:00 Beijing has rejected.

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