Monday, April 06, 2009

Cambodia, Thailand agree to prevent new border clash

BANGKOK, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Sunday during an urgent meeting that their commanders would increase their supervising over their soldiers to prevent re-occurrence of the Friday's clash, in which two Thai soldiers were killed.

Maj Gen Kanok Natrakawesana, commander of Thailand's Suranaree Task Force, held the urgent meeting with Cambodian Maj Gen Srey Doek in Preah Vihear Temple on Sunday morning, the website by The Nation newspaper reported.

"If any problem happens, commanders of both sides would immediately step in to prevent any new fighting," Kanok said, describing the urgent meeting as constructive.

Meanwhile, Srey Doek told Khmer media that the meeting was held in order to make the situation return normal and to make sure there 's no more gunfire.

"We have agreed to stay on our own sides of the border," Srey Doek said.

Concerning last week's exchanges of gunfire, Kanok said it was a misunderstanding and both countries had already discussed and solved the misunderstanding.

"We have agreed that we will cooperate more and such fighting would not happen again," Kanok said.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good to set up a preventive measures, but I am a bit fed up with this so-called compromise, fruitless negotiations. Bring the issue to UN Security Council and put pressure on Thailand to obey what was written / drawn in the map internationally recognized at the court in the Hague. If thai stop their greediness, there will be no tension. The business can go as usual.

Anonymous said...

Agree! i think it's wasting time with all of these bullshit talks! there will be new problem happend again soon...talk one thing and do another thing behind khmer'back!

Anonymous said...

Just wait and see! thai will create a new problem again soon!