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Asian ministers discuss South China Sea, security

19 July 2011 04:45 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA.Territorial disputes and flare-ups in the South China Sea are expected to dominate talks at Asia’s largest security forum this week, with Vietnam and the Philippines accusing China of interfering in energy exportation efforts, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com website.

Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations arrived at a tightly guarded five-star hotel on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for their annual get-together on Tuesday.

They will be joined later in the week by officials from the Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States for the ASEAN Regional Forum.

Other hot topics are expected to be the North Korean nuclear crisis and concerns about the slow pace of democratization in military-dominated Myanmar.