Participants attend the 13th Senior Officials' Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 16, 2016. Senior officials from China and ASEAN have reaffirmed plans to solve disputes on the South China Sea through negotiations and by using a regional framework of regulations. (Xinhua/Zou Jianpu)

August 16, 2016

"Senior officials from China and ASEAN have reaffirmed plans to solve disputes on the South China Sea through negotiations and by using a regional framework of regulations.

The statement came as senior officials held a meeting in Manzhouli, a land port city in northern China, on Monday and Tuesday, which focused on implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea (DOC).

The meeting was held after the China-ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in late July and before the upcoming China-ASEAN leaders' meeting in September."

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