Marcos: Up to China to accelerate COC talks
Amid the continued call for a binding Code of Conduct on the South China Sea, President Marcos said the ball is now in China's court, saying it has always been the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that has been pushing for it.
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00:00Every single day we push for the conclusion of COC because then that
00:05will provide the basis that will I'm sure that will come when the time cut
00:08when when if and when we have that COC then it will it will lay down the rules
00:16for everyone to follow and it will stabilize the situation that's why it is
00:21so important that's why I I don't want to make it a small matter that we push
00:31we really push in fact in almost every one of my interventions here at this
00:38ASEAN summit we mentioned that and say that the solution for now to this is
00:44well no not for now the solution in the in the end will be to have a COC and we
00:49are always pushing for it we're always pushing for we have to accelerate the
00:54negotiations we have to define our terms already as quickly as possible so we can
01:00talk about the issues that's a very important part of our of our argument I
01:06think the onus is now China to to accelerate those talks
01:19ASEAN has been has been waiting for a long time