Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) expressed the need to sustain the momentum for a dialog aimed at easing tensions over the South China Sea dispute, at the Philippine resort island of Boracay.

"The ministers underscored the importance of a full and effective implementation of the Declaration of Conduct of Parties (COC) in the South China Sea or the DOC (Declaration on the Conduct of Parties) in its entirety