THE Philippines will take the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year but the country will not raise the ruling of an international arbitral tribunal against China among its fellow Asean members, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said Tuesday.

“I can’t see the point,” Yasay said.

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