Duterte, Turnbull meet on ASEAN Summit sidelines

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/11/13/111317_turnbull.jpg"/><figcaption>President Rodrigo Duterte and his partner Cielito Avancena pose with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull before the start of the Special Gala Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN in Manila, Philippines November 12, 2017. Aaron Favila, Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday evening met with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the two countries’ ties.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">President Duterte holds a bilateral meeting with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull (📷: MPC Pool) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/l3nL7GDXFd">pic.twitter.com/l3nL7GDXFd</a>— Dharel Placido (@dgplacido) <a href="https://twitter.com/dgplacido/status/929712374621249536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script>Duterte welcomed Turnbull to their meeting following the gala dinner attended by leaders of the ASEAN and their dialogue partners.“I assure you that the relations between the two countries are strong, as always been, no problem for that. And we continue to cooperate in our alliances,” Duterte told Turnbull.Duterte also gave assurances to Australia that the Philippines, as this year’s ASEAN chair, has aired to China other nations’ concerns about the “continued build up of military installations” in the South China Sea.During his bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, Duterte told the Chinese leader of the need for a code of conduct for claimants to the South China Sea.Aside from the Philippines, three other ASEAN member states, namely Brunei, Vietnam, and Malaysia, have overlapping claims to the sea with China.Australia, along with the United States and Japan, in August this year, called for a code of conduct that is legally binding, enforceable, and have a dispute resolution mechanism.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/08/08/17/australia-japan-us-call-for-south-china-sea-code-to-be-legally-binding">READ: Australia, Japan, US call for South China Sea code to be legally binding</a></li></ul>

President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday evening met with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the two countries’ ties.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday evening met with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the two countries’ ties.

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Duterte, Turnbull meet on ASEAN Summit sidelines

Duterte, Turnbull meet on ASEAN Summit sidelines

Dharel Placido,

ABS-CBN News

Published Nov 13, 2017 09:34 AM PHT

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