DOC IMPLEMENTATION MEETING HELD IN GUIYANG

SENIOR OFFICIALS FROM CHINA AND ASEANcountries attended the 14th senior officials' meeting on the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on May 18.

A biannual bilateral consultation mechanism (BCM) between China and the Philippines was announced. During the first China-Philippines BCM meeting, both sides reaffirmed the importance of maintaining and promoting peace and stability, freedom of navigation in, and flight above, the South China Sea, addressing disputes by peaceful means, through friendly consultations and negotiations by sovereign states directly concerned.

Attendees at the meeting in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, on May 18.