From correspondents in Bangkok
Agence France-Presse
THE Thai premier has agreed to talks with his Cambodian counterpart this week in China after a long-running border spat escalated into a deadly shootout, a Thai government spokesman said today.
THAI Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat confirmed he would hold talks with Cambodian premier Hun Sen on the sidelines of a Beijing meeting between leaders of Asian and European nations on October 24 and 25, spokesman Nutthawut Saikua said.
"The prime minister had informed his cabinet during a meeting that he made an appointment to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen while both are attending the (Asia-Europe) meeting in China,'' Mr Nutthawut said.
An adviser for Hun Sen told reporters Monday that the Cambodian premier was expecting to meet with Somchai in Beijing.
Somchai, who has only been in power for one month but is already rattled by local political turmoil, was forced to cancel traditional familiarisation visits to neighbouring Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Myanmar this month.
Thai and Cambodian military officials meanwhile are scheduled to hold talks Thursday in Siem Reap aimed at calming the territorial dispute which last week erupted into fighting that killed one Thai and three Cambodian soldiers.
The firefight erupted between soldiers stationed on disputed land near Cambodia's ancient Preah Vihear temple.
Emergency talks the day after ended with Cambodian and Thai officials agreeing to joint border patrols - which have not started yet - but offered no lasting solution to the military stand-off along the border.
Tensions between the neighbours flared in July when Preah Vihear was awarded United Nations World Heritage status, rekindling long-simmering tensions over ownership of land surrounding the temple.
THAI Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat confirmed he would hold talks with Cambodian premier Hun Sen on the sidelines of a Beijing meeting between leaders of Asian and European nations on October 24 and 25, spokesman Nutthawut Saikua said.
"The prime minister had informed his cabinet during a meeting that he made an appointment to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen while both are attending the (Asia-Europe) meeting in China,'' Mr Nutthawut said.
An adviser for Hun Sen told reporters Monday that the Cambodian premier was expecting to meet with Somchai in Beijing.
Somchai, who has only been in power for one month but is already rattled by local political turmoil, was forced to cancel traditional familiarisation visits to neighbouring Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Myanmar this month.
Thai and Cambodian military officials meanwhile are scheduled to hold talks Thursday in Siem Reap aimed at calming the territorial dispute which last week erupted into fighting that killed one Thai and three Cambodian soldiers.
The firefight erupted between soldiers stationed on disputed land near Cambodia's ancient Preah Vihear temple.
Emergency talks the day after ended with Cambodian and Thai officials agreeing to joint border patrols - which have not started yet - but offered no lasting solution to the military stand-off along the border.
Tensions between the neighbours flared in July when Preah Vihear was awarded United Nations World Heritage status, rekindling long-simmering tensions over ownership of land surrounding the temple.
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HEY!!
ANOTHER TALKS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER TALKS. IT WILL BE ENLESS TELKS. TALKS AND TALKS UNTIL CAMBODIA WILL LOSE THE CASE IN BORDER LAND CONFLICTS.
TALKS WITH THAI PM SOMCHAI WILL BE THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS TALKS, ENDING UP IN NEGATIVE RESULT, THE WARS OF WORDS AND MAY LEAD TO ANOTHER ARMED CLASHES.
WHY ! WHY ?
THE WHY IS : AT THE MOMENT PM SOMCHAI DOES NOT HAVE FULL AUTHORIZED CAPACITY TO REPRESENT THAILAND IN THE TALKS. WHAT MAY BE AGREED OR DISAGREED AT THE TALKS WILL USELESS AS THE PAD, THE THAI KING AND THAI MILITARY WILL OBJECT IT AS NULL AND VOID.
NOTE: AFTER THE TALKS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNRIES'S FOREIGN MINISTERS IN PHNOM PENH, THERE WAS ULTIMATUM AND FIGHTING BROKE OUT.
THIS TIME THERE WILL BE TALKS OR NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THAI AND CAMBODIAN PRIME MINISTERS. KHMER PEOPLE HOPE THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY LARGE-SCALE FIGHTING.
PM HUN SEN AND SOMCHAI, YOU BOTH SHOULD NOT PLAN ANY MORE FIGHTINGS AIMED AT POLITICAL REINFORCEMENT OR HELP FOR THAKSIN AND PPP.
PM HUN SEN, YOU SHOULD NOT BE FOOLED BY THE THAIS, OR FLATTERED BY BEING NICKNAMED AS "CAMBODIA'S STRONG MAN". PLS DO WHAT CAN BENEFIT CAMBODIA ONLY.
REMEBER: FOR THE LAST 9 CENTURIES, CAMBODIA HAS NEVER GAINED ANYTHING FROM THAILAND. CAMBODA HAVE LOST A LOT AND WILL LOSE MORE IF KHMER LEADERS DO NOT MAKE WINING DECISIONS IN DEALING WITH THE THAIS.
YOU SHOULD FORGET ABOUT THE PAST CENTURIES DURING WHICH SOME OF THE KHMER KINGS AND LEADERS HAD DONE WRONGS AND CAUSED DESTRUCTIONS TO THE KHMER NATIONS.
THIS TIME, AS A LEADER OF NEW-GENERATION CAMBODIA, IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION TO SERVE AND SAVE THE KHMER NATION BETTER, BY TURNING THE LOSS AND FAILURES IN THE PAST INTO THE SUCCESSES FOR THE PRESENT-DAY AND FUTURE CAMBODIA.
YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR HABIT OF BLAMING THE PAST TO AVOID THE PRESENT PROBLEMS OR TO WASH YOUR HANDS OFF THE ISSES. IT IS NOT TIME TO BLAME THE PAST, BUT TO SETTLE THE CURRENT PROBLEMS BY SEEING THE FUTURE.
BLACK CAT
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