ASEAN chair statement: need to strengthen stability in region's maritime sphere

Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN recognises a need to strengthen stability in its maritime sphere and explore new initiatives to do so, its chair Indonesia said on Wednesday.

Its statement also expressed regional leaders' "grave concern" over a lack of substantial progress on the bloc's five-point peace plan for strife-torn Myanmar.

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