ASEAN Meeting: Wang Yi meets Lavrov in Malaysia, China agrees to sign on nuclear weapons ban in southeast Asian countries

Foreign ministers of Malaysia and China have confirmed that China has agreed to sign a treaty ban on nuclear weapons in Southeast Asian countries. The move has been taken to save the region from growing global security stress amid the danger of adjacent American tariffs. This commitment of Beijing was welcomed on Thursday for the gathering of diplomats for the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the South-East Asian Nations Organization (ASEAN) organization (ASEAN). In this meeting, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will also meet his regional counterparts and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

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Malaysia Foreign Minister Mohammad Hasan told reporters that China has confirmed its desire to sign the South-East Asian Nuclear weapon-free region (Seanwfz) Treaty. The agreement has been in force since 1997 and limits nuclear activities in the region to peaceful objectives such as energy production. Hasan said that China has committed to ensure that they would sign the treaty without hesitation. He further said that formal signatures will be made after completion of all the related documents.

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ASEAN has long been the world’s five-recognized nuclear powers China, the United States, Russia, France and the United Kingdom have been urging to sign the agreement and respect the non-atomic status of the region, including its exclusive economic zone and continental coast. Last week, Beijing indicated its readiness to support the treaty and present examples among the nuclear-cosmetics nations.