ASEAN FMs stress full, effective implementaion of DOC

VIENTIANE, July 25 — Foreign pastors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) underscored full and powerful execution of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC).

In a joint dispatch discharged on Monday after an ecclesiastical meeting in the Lao capital, the priests said, "We underscored the significance of the full and successful usage of the DOC completely."

They additionally encouraged all gatherings to work quickly for the early selection of a powerful Code of Conduct (COC).

The archive did not specify the not well established honor issued by a specially appointed tribunal on July 12 over the South China Sea assertion singularly started by the Philippines.

China has rejected the one-sided managing as "invalid and void with no coupling power."