Azmin: Freedom of navigation in South China Sea must remain unencumbered


Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali. -Starpic

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has maintained that the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea must remain unencumbered, says Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.

"The region must remain a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality and must not be allowed to be militarised," he said in his closing remarks at the South China Morning Post's China Conference here on Thursday (Oct 11).

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