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WASHINGTON - Russia and China blocked a proposed consensus statement for the East Asia Summit drafted by Southeast Asian countries, mainly over objections to language on the contested South China Sea , a US official told Reuters on Saturday.A draft statement arrived at by consensus by the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations was put to the 18-nation East Asia Summit meeting in Lao People's Democratic Republic on Thursday evening, the official said.
presented this final draft and said that, essentially, this was a take-it-or-leave-it draft," the official said on condition of anonymity.The United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and India all said they could support it, the official said, adding: "The Russians and the Chinese said that they could not and would not proceed with a statement.
countries, notably the Philippines. has spent years negotiating a Code of Conduct with Beijing for the strategic waterway, with some states insisting it be based on UNCLOS.China says it backs a code, but does not recognize a 2016 arbitral ruling that said its claim to most of the South China Sea had no basis under UNCLOS, to which Beijing is a signatory.According to a draft seen by Reuters, the proposed EAS statement contained an extra sub-clause over the 2023 approved statement, and this was not agreed to.
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