The Foreign Ministers' meeting is seeking ways to improve relations between China and ASEAN. Our reporter Tao Yuan has been at the meeting and she spoke to us about the significance of the conference.
“25 years of cooperation between China and ASEAN not only brought enormous benefit to 2 billion people. It also made an important contribution to regional peace and stability. We should raise our relationship to a strategic level, with long-term goals. We should expand the scope of our cooperation, and manage our differences in a proper manner,” Wang Yi said.
Now officials participating...hoping to turn this declaration into a Code of Conduct that's legally binding ...governs the dos and don'ts of all parties.