China has reached an agreement with Brunei, Cambodia and Laos that the South China Sea dispute "should not affect relations" with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday.
Wang was quoted as telling a news conference in the Lao capital of Vientiane that the four countries had reached a "consensus" on the South China Sea issue.
According to a report carried by the official Xinhua News Agency, the four countries agreed that states must be able to determine their own ways of solving disputes under international law and opposed attempts to "unilaterally impose an agenda on other countries."