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“With regard to Ukraine, as for all nations, we continued to reaffirm our respect for sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity,” learn the chair’s assertion, noting a name to adjust to the UN Constitution and worldwide regulation.

ASEAN leaders affirmed their “longstanding help for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian individuals, together with the rights to self-determination, and to their homeland.” This has been ASEAN’s constant place. 

The chair’s assertion famous that ASEAN urged “all events involved” to “work in the direction of a peaceable decision” and cling to the two-state answer proposed between Israel and Palestine. The chair additionally famous that ASEAN leaders referred to as on events to stick to earlier UN Safety Council and Normal Meeting resolutions associated to Israel’s battle on Gaza. 

“We reaffirm the duty of all States to resolve their variations by way of peaceable means and to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations, in step with worldwide regulation, together with the UN Constitution. We additional reiterate the obligations to guard civilians and civilian infrastructures in armed conflicts in keeping with worldwide regulation and related UN Safety Council resolutions,” learn the bloc chair’s assertion. 

The place echoes the one expressed by way of a joint assertion by the bloc’s overseas ministers. 

Within the bloc chair’s assertion launched Saturday, Might 9, the bloc urged its members Cambodia and Thailand “to resolve disputes by way of peaceable means in accordance with worldwide regulation and present treaties and agreements.”

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had earlier organized a trilateral assembly with the prime ministers of the 2 international locations months after the signing of a ceasefire deal in December 2025. 

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appeals to the USA, Israel, and Iran to finish hostilities and to discover a method to make sure lasting peace within the Center East.

“We’ll obtain completely nothing till there may be peace,” Marcos says in a press convention throughout the forty eighth ASEAN Summit in Cebu on Might 8, 2026. Underneath the Philippines’ chairmanship, the summit of Southeast Asian leaders targeted on the influence of the US and Israel’s battle on Iran.

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5 years after the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations adopted the 5-Level Consensus in a bid to resolve the disaster in Myanmar, peace stays elusive.

“Most of the members aired their frustration concerning the lack of progress within the strategy of normalizing the state of affairs in Myanmar,” Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says in a press convention throughout the forty eighth ASEAN Summit on Might 8, 2026.

“Myanmar is a part of the ASEAN household, and it’s a tragedy when a member of the family is not noted of the household for no matter purpose.”

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he and his fellow Southeast Asian leaders agree on the necessity for a shared oil reserve and an interconnected energy grid, particularly because the world grapples with the consequences of the continuing oil disaster.

However the particulars have but to be threshed out, Marcos tells reporters in a press convention throughout the forty eighth ASEAN Summit in Cebu on Might 8, 2026.

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. emphasizes the Philippines’ push for a legally binding ASEAN-China Code of Conduct within the South China Sea, saying {that a} COC should first be established earlier than the bloc seems to be into boosting financial cooperation with China.

“That’s one among our aspirations as chair of ASEAN for 2026…. How optimistic or pessimistic I’m, I don’t wish to say. It’s a really tough query,” says Marcos in a press convention for the forty eighth ASEAN Summit in Cebu on Might 8, 2026.

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