Leaders urge peace in S. China Sea

Heads of Southeast Asian nations on Wednesday emphasized the need to "intensify efforts" on implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.

"We stressed the need to intensify efforts to ensure the effective and full implementation of the DOC based on the guidelines for the implementation of the DOC," regional leaders said in a statement at the end of the 2012 Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.

The two-day summit also focused on Myanmar and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Regional leaders called for "self-restraint" over Pyongyang's plan to launch a rocket and "the lifting of all sanctions" imposed by the West on Myanmar, as Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy, has won Myanmar's parliamentary by-elections.