Wed, 02 Jul 2008
DPA
Bangkok - Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama will fly to Quebec, Canada, this week to personally oppose a Cambodian proposal to list Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). "Thailand's position is that we will oppose the Cambodian proposal to list the temple as a World Heritage Site," Noppadon told a press conference. He will soon fly to Quebec where the 21-member World Heritage Committee is meeting July 2 to 10 to approve new sites.
Thailand blocked Cambodia's efforts to list Preah Vihear, a centuries-old Hindu temple perched on a cliff that defines the Thai-Cambodian border, in both 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the inscription map included a 4.6 square kilometres piece of land in the temple compound that is still subject to a border dispute.
Cambodia redrew the map in May, to exclude the disputed territory, and on June 17 won the Thai government's backing to the UNESCO site proposal but the issue became highly politicized during street protests and a censure debate against Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet.
The Thai Cabinet on Tuesday decided to backtrack on support for the controversial temple's listing to obey an Administrative Court order made over the weekend.
It is unclear whether the government change in stance on the listing will derail Cambodia's proposal to list the temple at UNESCO's meeting in Quebec this week.
Although the World Heritage Committee cannot approve a site that is subject to a border dispute, Cambodia may argue that since it altered its map the temple is no longer under dispute.
Preah Vihear is still on the agenda for the World Heritage Committee, according to UNESCO.
"Proposed cultural sites from the Asia-Pacific region include: the Sacred Site of the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia), Fujian Tulou (China), Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Mountain Railways of India - serial extension to include the Kalka Shimla Railway- (India), the River Island of Majuli in midstream of the Brahmaputra River in Assam (India), Cultural Landscape of Bali Province (Indonesia), Hiraizumi - Cultural Landscape Associated with Pure Land Buddhist Cosmology (Japan), Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain (Kyrgyzstan), Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca: Melaka and George Town (Malaysia), and Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu)," said a UNESCO.
Preah Vihear, a stunning clifftop temple dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva, has long been a source of diplomatic spats between the two neighbouring countries.
Cambodia was awarded Preah Vihear by a World Court ruling.
Thailand blocked Cambodia's efforts to list Preah Vihear, a centuries-old Hindu temple perched on a cliff that defines the Thai-Cambodian border, in both 2006 and 2007 on the grounds that the inscription map included a 4.6 square kilometres piece of land in the temple compound that is still subject to a border dispute.
Cambodia redrew the map in May, to exclude the disputed territory, and on June 17 won the Thai government's backing to the UNESCO site proposal but the issue became highly politicized during street protests and a censure debate against Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet.
The Thai Cabinet on Tuesday decided to backtrack on support for the controversial temple's listing to obey an Administrative Court order made over the weekend.
It is unclear whether the government change in stance on the listing will derail Cambodia's proposal to list the temple at UNESCO's meeting in Quebec this week.
Although the World Heritage Committee cannot approve a site that is subject to a border dispute, Cambodia may argue that since it altered its map the temple is no longer under dispute.
Preah Vihear is still on the agenda for the World Heritage Committee, according to UNESCO.
"Proposed cultural sites from the Asia-Pacific region include: the Sacred Site of the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia), Fujian Tulou (China), Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Mountain Railways of India - serial extension to include the Kalka Shimla Railway- (India), the River Island of Majuli in midstream of the Brahmaputra River in Assam (India), Cultural Landscape of Bali Province (Indonesia), Hiraizumi - Cultural Landscape Associated with Pure Land Buddhist Cosmology (Japan), Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain (Kyrgyzstan), Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca: Melaka and George Town (Malaysia), and Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu)," said a UNESCO.
Preah Vihear, a stunning clifftop temple dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva, has long been a source of diplomatic spats between the two neighbouring countries.
Cambodia was awarded Preah Vihear by a World Court ruling.
30 comments:
Thailand should abolish the monarchy and declare itself a republic like Myanmar.
Please don't waste your time, Mr Pattama, in Quebec...Preah Vihear is Cambodian and will be listed unilaterally this July of 2008.
As a warning: PLEASE DO NOT MESS IN SOMEONE ELSE'S INTERNAL AFFAIR. Just take care of your own problems at home...
Siam minn chorl putt.
This is the International shame for Thailand.
Thai Shame!
Fuck the Thai!
I'm pretty sure and confident that Khmer (Prasat Preah Vihear) will get a GREEN light at the UNESCO.
The stupid Thai will look more than a fool and shame to the world.
Khmer will win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you your excellency Noppadon Pattama for looking after Khmer people in Issan Province. We must not allowed Ah Desperate Karmen in Cambodia to rob our temple and land!
May Buddha be with you and help you to protect our Khmer inheritances from desperate thieves.
why are you still claiming like this,5:47am? being a thai citizen,what have you gained? just repeatedly oppressed,badly controlled,and your khmer language is gradually vanishing because of what?
i know and understand your people's mind there,i have been there twice.
It's just ours 6:37am.
Who care about Thai, Yuon, or Jen citizen, 6:37? We just want to get away from you Karmen people. Don't you know that to be with you is to be self-destruct? Just give our temple back and get out of our mountain, or we'll throw you over. Get the picture.
You are smart ass ladyby(7.34am). if you want the temple, go and claim it. you head will be cut and hanged on the gate of border.
We will get our temple back, and you guy better be ready for a long fall off the cliff.
8:14 AM
You still don't understand that you will get nothing back.
1962 is an International Court decision in favor of the Khmer.
You don't change their decision when you feel like it.
The siam tried for 50 years and you still haven't succeeded.
What you gonna say in Quebec, no you don't want Preah Vihear to be enlisted?
Preah Vihear is recognize by the whole world to belong to Cambodia.
Just seat and watch, it will be enlisted.
Do you think Unesco will revoke International Court decision?
They are the same entity dumbass!!!
Who are you trying to kid, 8:47? Everyone knows the Kangaroo court were rigged.
Preah viharn was built by khmers in Thailand.Just hand off what is not yours ah khmen.Think about the deep fall off the cliff will ya ?.
Some Khmer Surin called themselves Khmer--their parents and ancestors are born in srok Khmer. One biggest thing about our Khmer/Thai culture is HONORING our ancestors, my question is, HAS ALL THE KHMER SURIN FORGOTTEN WHO THEY WERE AND WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS ARE FROM?? I'll be ashamed of myself, if in the future my own kids and grand kids look down on their own people and country.
I know we had our share of our atrocities in the past (Khmer killing Khmer )and the current government aren't treating their citizens all that great; all in all, this doesn't reflect the Khmer's mentality as a whole.
The 'Khmer kbott Jeat': sometime I can't decide whether to HATE you or accept you as my own, for you were brainwashed by your enemy.
SIAM TODAY IS SIAM YESTERDAY AND WILL ALWAYS BE SIAM,THEIR WAYS OF LIFE AND THEIR WAYS OF LIE,NEVER CHANGE!!!!!!
We khmer, had changed in every field .We all khmer no longer dump enough for all of you siam to fool us again,ever.You shameless siam from your citizen to government level,including the palace,had no moral and/or respect to the agreement and the endorsement of your own foreign minister with cambodia.What is this???your country should be isolated from the world body.WE ALL STILL CARELESS ABOUT YOUR STUPID COUNTRY POLICIES.We will still own the temple and the surrounding area,no matter what the outcome would be from unesco.All your leaders did is just to remind us khmer not to trust any of your siam agreement in the future.We all khmer had learn and awared of your siam tricky game.Khmer today is not khmer yesterday,we had spread all over the world,got well educated in every field and we khmer abroard,would never ever forget our khmer nation and our blood who we left behind.We had enough man power to lobby the world against your greedy siam.If in case of war against you siam and if you're lucky enough to take over the khmer nation,we khmer abroard will make your siam country "THE TRUE LIVING HELL OF THE CENTURY" but will bring our khmer nation back to life at a lightening speed.We khmer now had the education from every part of the world,we had all the natural resources,we had all the man power,we will have all the investment at our target.You siam,will just one monkey next to us in term of education,economy and military power.We will build our khmer nation to be the tigers of south east asea in a short period of time.
from khmer usa,love khmer,proud to be khmer.
I hope strongly this temple will be listed in a world heritage because we have many evidences of international law that showed this temple belong to Cambodia such as French-Siam treaties in 1904 and 1907, ICJ in 1962. The Unesco's committee won't under politic pressure of SIAM, they will consider about important thing of the human history, human culture in the world. So it's enough reason to be listed as a world heritage.
The Preah Vihear will be listed in UNESCO, All cambodian people will celebrate 3day of the national festival infront of Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh!!!!!
All cambodian people wait for the good sound from the Unesco's result in Quebec this week.
Preah Vihear belong to Cambodia!!!!
From Ramy, Chungnam University, South Korea.
Well Said 9:45am! Khmer people who are not treated as Khmer Krom won't rise up against Ah Siam, thief. They thought they better than Khmer people who live in Cambodia but in fact they were treated as an minority; they were also taught with mislead history. Wake up Khmer people in Siam and show the world how bad the Thais are to the world.
We will win this case again. I love my Khmer nation (Cambodia) even I'm far away from him. If my nation lost any square inches of land, you will see the consequences the next day you wake up. We're going to win this case again!!!
One true Khmer young blood
I think some of blogger at here is not khmer people, they are Siam thief even if they siad they are khmer in Thailand but their brain is Siam, they did know the hurtness of the lossing territory and became the secondary people in their homeland.
I'm very disappointed when i heard some of khmer like this, who want Preah Vihear belong to Thailand.
You should shame by yourself!!!!
You must close your bad mouth!!!
Khmer can't count you are khmer blood because your brain was changed to Siam.
Preah Vihear belong to Khmer in Cambodia, not khmer in Thai like you.
All khmer people in Cambodia will celebrate 3 days of the national festival infront of Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh when Preah Vihear is listed in UNESCO.
Thai shame with their international affair!!!!
All the Politic Parties in Cambodia joint together to protect A Siam thief.!!!
From Khmer new generation, Ramy, Chungnam University, South Korea.
10:18am, Don't you know your neighbor to the South is nibbling your land now? not by sqare inches my friend by kilometers.How naive you are.
10:43 AM, I know bad things are happening at my homeland. As for now, I do not want to hear you greedy Siam, thief to steal any more land from us. Then, I'm going to deal with Ah Youn, Uncle wHore who has been using their small asses viet-girls with HIV to attract our monkey leaders and suck our Khmer blood like leeches.
We will win this case again!!!
One true Khmer young blood and I'm proud to be Khmer/Cambodian.
9:31AM
Are you ass still hurt, because the last time I think I kick it a little bit hard?
Still have a grudge against me???
Hahaha...!!!
I guess "Everone" means Siamland.
Tell Pattamama to tell the world that the International Court are bunch of crook.
Also have respect for Westerners don't call them Kangoroos. Because if these guys were to pull out all
their business from Siamland, you and all the Siam will suffer hunger.
So think before talking non-sense
Siam-dog.
10:43AM
Must be the Siamland's brother.
You know that big country in the north, I think they call themselves Chinese.
Also they don't like you two twins very much.
They plan to have Siamland and Vietcong land as their province.
No sure, why don't you just give them a call.
9:38 AM
We and the whole world think that Preah Vihear is our.
Try to convince us!!!
May be it's you who will fall from that cliff.
But I won't let that happen to you, you can take the cable car that will be in construction soon.
I charge you a good price, I always pity Siam people for their ignorance.
Samdech Hun Sen should build a wall between the Thai-Cambodian border and shut it forever. All tourists must come through the Cambodian side.
Siames bitches, I would be ashame to death, if I was one of them who opposes the enlistment of Preah Vihear. Their government doesnt keep their own words, Who is gonna trust them from now on? agreement signed is already signed? and it is international agreement, how could they void it anytime they want like this? this is such a shame, I bet not only cambodia, the rest of the world will never trust them anymore. The temple is belong to Cambodia, even though it is close to the border it is in Cambodia authority, how could they interfere with something that doesnt belong to them? You stupid siames will end up being called shameless dumbass in front of the world!
A Khmer-Japanese
I'm khmer in thailand. Here is the solution cambodia can bring the facts and history to the world court and claim the provices os sorin and si saket back ,so Ah chorp(siamese) can learn their own history (clear their brainwash back to normal). I want to unite it with the motherland cambodia (land of the suffering and nice people)
We will no longer land of the suffering, we will lead our people to progress, development and prosperous just like during the Angkor peak.
Come bring all our provinces back and join the motherland!!!!!!!!!
Yes, but that was before we (Khmer) splitted split up, you fools. Thus, the only way to succeed like old times is joint development.
haaa.. Khmer sucks
ungraduate ppl.
ur whole damned mommy fu*king mother land was belong to Siam.
And then French took it.
Siam can claim the Camel land like China claim Hongkong, but Siam don't want your trash land with brainless uncivilization ppl.
Khmer always disloyal in the history like the dog try to backbite it's boss.
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