Joint declaration on South China Sea Dispute
Mock ASEAN-China Summit 2014
Phnom Penh, 09 August 2014
We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN and Foreign Minister of People’s Republic of China, gathered on 09 August 2014 at the Mock ASEAN-China summit on South China Sea Dispute.
REAFFIRMING the commitment to promote a peace, friendship and cooperation among ASEAN members and People’s Republic of China, and find solution to end South China Sea Dispute.
RECALLING the declaration on conduct of parties in the South China Sea made on November 2002 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
DETERMINDED to establish an agreement to help solving the conflict on South China Sea Dispute between ASEAN claimant members and People’s Republic of China regarding for the aims of promoting peace and cooperation in the region.
RECOGNIZING the need to promote a peaceful, friendly and harmonious environment in the South China Sea between ASEAN claimant members and China for the enhancement of peace, stability, economic growth and prosperity in the region
CONCERNED dispute can be made many harmful and affected the regional security with increasing number of tensions over the region, and as the recent developments indicated that the South China Sea issue became more complicated, threatened the security of the whole region.
AFFIRMING the commitment to seek for agreement on solving conflict of South China Sea issue of ASEAN claimant members and People’s Republic of China, enhance beneficial cooperation among ASEAN and People’s Republic of China.
DESIRING to enhance favorable conditions for a peaceful and durable solution of differences and disputes among countries concerned
CONVINCED that an essential means to achieve such peaceful resolution on South China Sea Dispute is to affectively take action on agreement and reinforce the further agreement,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
- Continue to effectively undertake the implementation of the DECLARATION ON THE CONDUCT OF PARTIES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (DOC) should be top priority to enhance South China Sea maritime security and encourage the parties concerned to resolve territorial and jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means.
- Insist ASEAN and China to fasten their work towards an early conclusion of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC) with the establishment of effective mechanisms and techniques to monitor the implementation of the COC.
- Respect other universally recognized principles and international laws which shall serve as the basic norms governing state-to-state relations, including Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and ASEAN’s Six-Point Principles on the South China Sea.
- Urge all sovereign states directly involved in the issue to continue their peaceful and friendly negotiation and consultation to seek a considerable and acceptable joint development.
- Suggest all parties concerned in the conflict to temporarily stop their military exercises in the conflict area in order to ensure that our region remains peaceful, stable, secure and free from misunderstanding.
- Initiate a workshop on managing potential conflict in South China Sea to ease tension between claimant states.
Done in Phnom Penh, on ninth day of August in the year of Two thousand and fourteen, in a single copy in English Language.