The Foreign Ministry yesterday lodged an official protest with Cambodia over territorial violations in the area near Preah Vihear Temple with overlapping claims.
April 11, 2008
Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation (Thailand)
Virachai Plasai, director-general of the Treaties and Legal Affairs Department, summoned Cambodian Ambassador Ung Sean to receive the aide-memoire after Phnom Penh dispatched troops to the area over a month ago.
Thailand took the step because Cambodia had dishonoured a memorandum of understanding signed in 2000 by both parties which bars them from making any changes in the area before the border can be demarcated, Virachai said.
The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the Hindu temple belongs to Cambodia but the boundary line in Si Sa Ket's Kantaralak district remains unclear. The area of 4.6 square kilometres around the temple was claimed by both sides.
The ministry has lodged complaints with Cambodia before - in 2004 over the building of a road, in 2005 over the setting up of official outposts and a community, and in 2007 over the issuing of a decree to claim the area so it can be registered as a World Heritage Site.
Bangkok requested Phnom Penh to withdraw its armed forces and leave the area vacant until the completion of demarcation - expected in some 10 years.
The dispute over the overlapping area has prohibited Cambodia from registering the Hindu temple as a United Nations World Heritage Site as Thailand claims the proposed preservation area as its own.
"We did not oppose the proposal to list the ancient site as a world heritage site but Cambodia should not include the questionable territory in its proposal," Virachai said.
The two neighbours have set up a joint working group on the issue, suggesting a contemporary regime to supervise the area before allowing Phnom Penh to register it as a world heritage site, he said.
The protest yesterday was merely a matter of record in accordance with international law. It would not jeopardise mutual relations and the joint effort to solve the problem, he said.
April 11, 2008
Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation (Thailand)
Virachai Plasai, director-general of the Treaties and Legal Affairs Department, summoned Cambodian Ambassador Ung Sean to receive the aide-memoire after Phnom Penh dispatched troops to the area over a month ago.
Thailand took the step because Cambodia had dishonoured a memorandum of understanding signed in 2000 by both parties which bars them from making any changes in the area before the border can be demarcated, Virachai said.
The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the Hindu temple belongs to Cambodia but the boundary line in Si Sa Ket's Kantaralak district remains unclear. The area of 4.6 square kilometres around the temple was claimed by both sides.
The ministry has lodged complaints with Cambodia before - in 2004 over the building of a road, in 2005 over the setting up of official outposts and a community, and in 2007 over the issuing of a decree to claim the area so it can be registered as a World Heritage Site.
Bangkok requested Phnom Penh to withdraw its armed forces and leave the area vacant until the completion of demarcation - expected in some 10 years.
The dispute over the overlapping area has prohibited Cambodia from registering the Hindu temple as a United Nations World Heritage Site as Thailand claims the proposed preservation area as its own.
"We did not oppose the proposal to list the ancient site as a world heritage site but Cambodia should not include the questionable territory in its proposal," Virachai said.
The two neighbours have set up a joint working group on the issue, suggesting a contemporary regime to supervise the area before allowing Phnom Penh to register it as a world heritage site, he said.
The protest yesterday was merely a matter of record in accordance with international law. It would not jeopardise mutual relations and the joint effort to solve the problem, he said.
4 comments:
What? What kind of memorandum? The fucken memorandum is to force Cambodia to do thing the Thaicong way? Fuck the Thaicong way!
Imagine,Thaksin owns Hun Sen entire family and every poor Cambodian included beggars carry 012 mobile phone.
Billionaire Thaksin was a patriot for his nation unlike Hun Sen a stooge of Yuon.
So the point is take the ingrate Siam to court once again but who can pull such as thing if Hun Sen owns Sihanouk who's owned by Beijing.
This mother fucker THAI thief always trying. They are trying to make it difficult for us. We should not forget that... ever. What goes around, comes around.
this is a good example why khmer people never like the thai or siem. i don't think they can ever be a friend of khmer people. cambodia ought to retaliate by all mean. i don't think cambodia needs thailand for anything. cambodia should not even allow them to settle in our ancestors' land, then and now for if given a chance, they would take over all of cambodia. talk about violation of a nation's sovereinty. the bottom line is thailand is very jealous of cambodia and i'm sure they don't want to see cambodia become better than them. and i'm sure, cambodian people have the same to say about them as well. too bad, god put the two people so close together in eternity. i guess they have to get use to that as well.
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