26 Oct 2008 By Pen Bona
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Sess Sâr
Click here to read the article in French
The two PMs met in China on Friday 24 October, on the sideline of the ASEM meeting, in order to discuss about the Preah Vihear situation.
The two government leaders promise not to make use of force to resolve border disputes between the two countries. That announcement was the only concrete highlight of their meeting. For the rest, the Preah Vihear case is still in a deadlock. Nevertheless, Hor Nam Hong, the Cambodian minister of Foreign Affairs, and Sompong Amornwiwat, his Thai counterpart, said that they are optimist. At the end of the meeting, they told reporters that Hun Sen and Somchai Wongsawat “agreed” that “fighting” like the one which took place on 15 October “will not happen again.” From official source, the fighting between the two armies led to the death of three Cambodian soldiers and one Thai casualty.
The calming declarations came on the heel of the meeting of the army chiefs from the two camps which took place in Siem Reap on 23-24 October. There as well, the two countries assured that they will not use force to resolve their difference.
Nonetheless, these very diplomatic speeches do not convince much anybody. For several months now, leaders from both countries gave out soothing speeches, but actually in the field, no solution can be seen in the horizon as of yet.
The two government leaders promise not to make use of force to resolve border disputes between the two countries. That announcement was the only concrete highlight of their meeting. For the rest, the Preah Vihear case is still in a deadlock. Nevertheless, Hor Nam Hong, the Cambodian minister of Foreign Affairs, and Sompong Amornwiwat, his Thai counterpart, said that they are optimist. At the end of the meeting, they told reporters that Hun Sen and Somchai Wongsawat “agreed” that “fighting” like the one which took place on 15 October “will not happen again.” From official source, the fighting between the two armies led to the death of three Cambodian soldiers and one Thai casualty.
The calming declarations came on the heel of the meeting of the army chiefs from the two camps which took place in Siem Reap on 23-24 October. There as well, the two countries assured that they will not use force to resolve their difference.
Nonetheless, these very diplomatic speeches do not convince much anybody. For several months now, leaders from both countries gave out soothing speeches, but actually in the field, no solution can be seen in the horizon as of yet.
5 comments:
Ah Chhleuy Hor Nam(5) Hong!!Ah yoún Hanoi,Ah young Youn Hund Xen,he is for nothing for Khmer nation.
Hor Nam Hong was khmer Rouge leader!!Beng Tro Bek 's thief!!!
He is murder!!!
I believed you have to live with pad of siem will better than live in khmer country, khmer don't need you and don't need person like you ok asshole.
the cpp political freedom or action is limited to the field and conditions left by its boss yuon hanoi.
The murderers like pol pot, hor nam hong, sihanouk and the rest of its comrades don’t care and wont care about Cambodia or Khmer people but its own party, family or personal interest. Unfortunately Khmer people didn't have resistance and force to reverse the reign of these evils yuon slaves
10:04 PM
Nothing last forever, even ah yuon and ah siem.
If Thai are smart, they should help Khmer with humanitarian: creat sincere friendship with cultural exchange, build school, support social program to ensure better life for Khmer, and first of all pull all the troop from Khmer land, and that is the only option for Thai Khmer cultural survival (hopefully we can get Lao involve in the fold too for social progress but Thai need to do alot to sooth for better friendship because Khmer hate Thai, but Lao even more so). Thai have been done many bad things to Khmer, Lao and all its neigbor , and the hatrate is deeper and deeper.
Post a Comment