CEBU, Philippines, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The summit meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six of its dialogue partners will not face security problems at the host city of Cebu, the Philippine organizers said on Thursday following three bomb blasts in the southern island of Mindanao Wednesday night.

    In a press conference at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC), Marciano Paynor Jr., secretary general of the Summit National Organizing Committee (NOC), said that the attendance of the 16 leaders "is itself a statement" that the Cebu summits would move on as scheduled.

    The summit's participant leaders will arrive here on Thursday to Sunday, according to Paynor, who earlier assured the public that neither the weather nor the so-called terrorist threats would prevent the holding of the ASEAN Summit and related summits over the weekend.

    Wednesday's blasts were isolated, not targeting the summit in Cebu itself, Paynor added.

    Meanwhile, Gwendolyn Garcia, the governor of Cebu province told reporters that the blasts took place some 500 kilometers south of the summit's venues, as she urge the visitors and reporters not to panic.

    Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo on Wednesday night said that the blasts, if terrorists behind them, were considered as a retaliation to the military's offensives in Sulu region against the Abu Sayyaf Group.

    On Wednesday night, three Mindanao cities were rocked by separate bomb blasts, with at least seven people killed and dozens injured.