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Thailand to convince Cambodia for talks to settle border rows
BANGKOK, Feb 22 (TNA) - Thailand is trying to convince Cambodia to enter into bilateral negotiations to solve pending border rows between the two neighbouring countries.
Acting Government Spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said that Thailand would be trying to convince Cambodia for the talks during the informal ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, on Tuesday (Feb 22). Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya is attending the meeting, specially organized to find a way out for the ongoing Thai-Cambodian border woes.
Panitan, who is also Deputy Secretary-General to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, acknowledged that Thailand would seriously advocate the negotiations, as recommended by the UN Security Council (UNSC), and would use the ASEAN forum in Jakarta to present facts to the international community, which has voiced its support to a permanent truce between Thailand and Cambodia.
The spokesman revealed that Thailand would also call on Cambodia to withdraw their soldiers and military bases from a 4.6-square-kilometre contentious border area close to the ancient Preah Vihear Temple and expects a positive response from Phnom Penh.
Panitan also referred to Monday's (Feb 21) visit to Phum Srol Village along the Thai-Cambodian border near the Preah Vihear Temple in Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket Province by military attaches from 14 countries, saying that the international military delegation met local villagers and realized heavily negative impacts on them; while agreeing that the border area should be free of heavy weaponry and admitting that not only the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but also the European Union (EU) are concerned over the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border and want Thailand to report to the world community regularly on progress of its attempts to convince Cambodia to enter into the bilateral negotiations. The international military diplomats said that they wish Cambodia to enter into the bilateral talks eventually.
According to the deputy secretary general to the Thai premier, Thailand is also ready for any UN inspection of damage on the Thai side caused by recent Cambodian artillery and for self-defence in response to Cambodia’s plan to ask the International Court of Justice to interpret its verdict on the 11th-century Preah Vihear in 1962. (TNA)
Acting Government Spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said that Thailand would be trying to convince Cambodia for the talks during the informal ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, on Tuesday (Feb 22). Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya is attending the meeting, specially organized to find a way out for the ongoing Thai-Cambodian border woes.
Panitan, who is also Deputy Secretary-General to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, acknowledged that Thailand would seriously advocate the negotiations, as recommended by the UN Security Council (UNSC), and would use the ASEAN forum in Jakarta to present facts to the international community, which has voiced its support to a permanent truce between Thailand and Cambodia.
The spokesman revealed that Thailand would also call on Cambodia to withdraw their soldiers and military bases from a 4.6-square-kilometre contentious border area close to the ancient Preah Vihear Temple and expects a positive response from Phnom Penh.
Panitan also referred to Monday's (Feb 21) visit to Phum Srol Village along the Thai-Cambodian border near the Preah Vihear Temple in Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket Province by military attaches from 14 countries, saying that the international military delegation met local villagers and realized heavily negative impacts on them; while agreeing that the border area should be free of heavy weaponry and admitting that not only the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but also the European Union (EU) are concerned over the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border and want Thailand to report to the world community regularly on progress of its attempts to convince Cambodia to enter into the bilateral negotiations. The international military diplomats said that they wish Cambodia to enter into the bilateral talks eventually.
According to the deputy secretary general to the Thai premier, Thailand is also ready for any UN inspection of damage on the Thai side caused by recent Cambodian artillery and for self-defence in response to Cambodia’s plan to ask the International Court of Justice to interpret its verdict on the 11th-century Preah Vihear in 1962. (TNA)
