Title:

 No Philippines-China talks on sea row in 2 years

Author:

Estrella Torres

Source:

The Jakarta Post

Date:

June 20, 2016 

Description:

Former Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday said President-elect Rodrigo Duterte had given assurance that there would be no bilateral talks with China to resolve the territorial dispute in the South China Sea in the next two years. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio also said the Philippine panel in the arbitration proceedings against China had received the same assurance from Duterte.