00:00There was this report about this meeting regarding the COC.
00:05Could you confirm if it will really take place on the 30th until February 2?
00:13Yeah, regarding the COC discussions, yes, certainly it will take place.
00:17But as to the details about the date or even the venue,
00:22I don't have that information because I understand it's a confidential meeting.
00:27And that was also agreed by the parties to keep the details of this meeting confidential.
00:33But certainly, the COC meeting is going to take place.
00:38It has not taken place, but it will.
00:40So it will be the ASEAN plus China?
00:43Yes, definitely.
00:43What's the expected outcome during this meeting?
00:47Although it's not yet the conclusion, so what do we expect?
00:52It's hard to say what kind of outcome we will have.
00:56But the important thing here is that when the parties sit down to do the negotiations,
01:04to continue the negotiations, what's important is we will have some kind of movement
01:11as to the last agreements that we had in the previous meetings.
01:17We'll be happy to have a movement, of course.
01:21And I would also like to underscore that the Philippines as chair is really facilitating
01:27the progress of the discussions in terms of encouraging more meetings
01:35so that we'll be able to at least endeavor to conclude the negotiations or the discussions
01:43within the timeline that was given under the guidelines, which was set back in 2023.
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