Indonesia Ready to Work With Countries to Finalise South China Sea Code

MANILA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Tuesday her country is ready to work with other Southeast Asian nations to finalise a long-delayed code of conduct for the South China Sea, where many of its neighbours have overlapping claims with China.

Retno was speaking at a joint press conference with her Filipino counterpart Enrique Manalo in Manila, ahead of a visit by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor)

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