MANILA, Philippines: The Philippines is willing to share natural resources with Beijing in contested South China Sea areas even if it wins a legal challenge next week, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay told AFP on Friday.
Yasay said President Rodrigo Duterte´s administration hoped to quickly begin direct talks with China following Tuesday´s verdict, with the negotiations to cover jointly exploiting natural gas reserves and fishing grounds within the Philippines´ exclusive eco**mic zone.
“We can even have the objective of seeing how we can jointly explore this territory: how we can utilise and benefit mutually from the utilisation of the resources in this exclusive eco**mic zone where claims are overlapping," Yasay told AFP in an interview.
07-10-2016, 02:59 AM
Philippines willing to share South China Sea
العرض العادي
