Philippines foreign minister urges China: 'stop harassing us'

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Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo tells AFP that his country wants to solve maritime disputes with China peacefully -- but delivered a simple message to Beijing: "stop harassing us".

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00:00 Highlighting or putting in the media incidents in the South China Sea is

00:05 precisely a part of our democracy and it's merely trying to inform the people

00:09 of what's going on. And some countries or one country at least has had some

00:15 difficulty with that but our simple explanation is if you would stop

00:19 harassing us and perhaps performing other actions there wouldn't be any news

00:28 to report. So in the event of any escalation it's important that we seek

00:34 to find ways to to let's say prevent such escalation by rising from raising

00:40 tensions in the area. But certainly while the Philippines is committed to a

00:45 peaceful resolution of disputes through diplomatic means or peaceful means this

00:53 will not be done at the expense of our national interest.

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