PHNOM PENH — Southeast Asian nations will discuss North Korea’s planned rocket launch at a summit this week, ASEAN chief Surin Pitsuwan said April 1, after the Philippines lodged diplomatic protests over the matter.
“The foreign ministers are taking up that issue tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,” he told reporters in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where officials are preparing for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
“I think we are all very concerned that any instability in the peninsula will lead to further possibility potential for (an) arms race, for nuclearization of the region, which will not be good for the region as a whole,” Surin told reporters when asked about ASEAN’s position on the launch.
“And it will certainly affect trade confidence, investment in the region, including in ASEAN,” he added.
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