APEC Won't Tackle Sea Spat
2015-11-11 08:57:05 source：Global Times
November 11, 2015
"China is not aware of any plan to discuss the South China Sea at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting, to be held in Manila next week, China's vice foreign minister said on Tuesday, as tensions escalate in the waters.
Li Baodong, China's vice foreign minister, told a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday that 'there is no plan to discuss the South China Sea issue.'
'APEC is mainly a platform to discuss economic and trade cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region,' he said, according to an AFP report 'There is consensus on this point.'
His statement came after a Filipino official from the APEC organizing committee said the Philippines would not raise the issue at the meeting."
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