On May 12, 2016 local time, the 7th ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum held in Doha adopted the Doha Declaration. The declaration emphasizes that Arab states support China to peacefully settle territorial and maritime disputes with concerned countries though friendly consultation and negotiation in accordance with bilateral agreements and relevant regional consensus, and stresses that the rights entitled to sovereignty states and State Parties of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea to choose dispute settlement ways independently should be respected.