AFP
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned Thailand Thursday it must respect his country's sovereignty ahead of talks over the two countries' disputed border near an ancient temple.
Thai deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban is scheduled to meet with Hun Sen Saturday at his home near Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to discuss the troop standoff in the disputed border zone.
The Cambodian leader said in a speech that he would take a hard stance on the dispute, which has killed seven soldiers near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple since tensions flared last year.
"We will not accept an explanation from Suthep over the Preah Vihear issue. I will welcome only an explanation about withdrawal of Thai soldiers out of sovereign Cambodian territory," Hun Sen said.
"I have a full obligation to defend independent and sovereign territory," he added.
Relations between the neighbours worsened last week when Bangkok announced it would ask world heritage body UNESCO to reconsider its decision to list Preah Vihear in Cambodia, since the surrounding land is still in dispute.
This week, however, UNESCO refused to hear Thailand's complaint as its world heritage committee met in Seville, Spain, according to Cambodian government officials.
Cambodia and Thailand have been at loggerheads over the land around the
Preah Vihear temple for decades, but tensions spilled over into violence last July when the temple was granted UN World Heritage status.
Although the World Court ruled in 1962 that it belonged to Cambodia, the most accessible entrance to the ancient Khmer temple with its crumbling stone staircases and elegant carvings is in northeastern Thailand.
Soldiers from Cambodia and Thailand continue to patrol the area, with the last gunbattle in the temple area in April leaving three people dead.
The border between the two countries has never been fully demarcated, in part because it is littered with landmines left over from decades of war in Cambodia.
Thai deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban is scheduled to meet with Hun Sen Saturday at his home near Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to discuss the troop standoff in the disputed border zone.
The Cambodian leader said in a speech that he would take a hard stance on the dispute, which has killed seven soldiers near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple since tensions flared last year.
"We will not accept an explanation from Suthep over the Preah Vihear issue. I will welcome only an explanation about withdrawal of Thai soldiers out of sovereign Cambodian territory," Hun Sen said.
"I have a full obligation to defend independent and sovereign territory," he added.
Relations between the neighbours worsened last week when Bangkok announced it would ask world heritage body UNESCO to reconsider its decision to list Preah Vihear in Cambodia, since the surrounding land is still in dispute.
This week, however, UNESCO refused to hear Thailand's complaint as its world heritage committee met in Seville, Spain, according to Cambodian government officials.
Cambodia and Thailand have been at loggerheads over the land around the
Preah Vihear temple for decades, but tensions spilled over into violence last July when the temple was granted UN World Heritage status.
Although the World Court ruled in 1962 that it belonged to Cambodia, the most accessible entrance to the ancient Khmer temple with its crumbling stone staircases and elegant carvings is in northeastern Thailand.
Soldiers from Cambodia and Thailand continue to patrol the area, with the last gunbattle in the temple area in April leaving three people dead.
The border between the two countries has never been fully demarcated, in part because it is littered with landmines left over from decades of war in Cambodia.
14 comments:
Lets do it!!
Empty statement from Hun Sen, a puppet of Vietnam. His leadership is weakening everyday because he serves Vietnam's expansionist policy.
The Thai very well know Hun Sen's strength. They know he has no diplomatic skill and power to do anything effectively beside sending poorly-trained and poorly-eqqupiped Khmer soldiers to die at border to create blind nationalism among ill-informed Khmers.
The Forth Indochina war will irrupt soon-- Thai will over run Cambodia to capture Phnom Penh then change Hun Sen Regime, and install New Government.
Dear Editor,
Pls see this story, Suthep soon quit from deputy PM
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/147146/suthep-ready-to-quit-if-found-guilty-by-ec
11:12 and 11:23 are Siem perpetrator. They're pretend to be Khmers.
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Khmen,
Your country is on the brink of Disparition as of a Nation and Race, because your incompetent leadership which had facilitated the Vietnamisation of Cambodia.
Viets, Viets, Viets every where in all domains, Viet armies wearing Khmer uniforms, Viet agents controlled Hun Sen's government.
Thailand had this opportunity to take over Cambodia.
Khmer Issan
I want Khmer Army to kill all the Yellow Shirts and blow up Bangkok.
Khmer Issan
Thailand is chicken shitty head! they are just bluffing!, i don't think they dare to cross over like the did, they are fucken scared of khmer rouge gurella fighter! those tanks, artillery ,and big guns that they bring, just to showing off that's all....
Thailand is fake with fags army!!
Thai try to make cambodian army fire a shot first! by increasing their fire power...
I, think we can use thai style
fire the gun shot first and said thai fired first,and we start shooting rampage into thai land.
Fuck all the thai army. I hate them
when the khmer people lived in K.I.D, THAI ARMY use to abused khmers. let detroy Bangkok and claim it for cambodia or split fifty fifty with Vienam and china.
so that way they don't take cambodia land.
The United States won't let the war happen between Cambodia and Thailand because the U.S. supplies all kinds of weapons, tanks, battle ships and F-16 jet fighters to Thailand. Thailand keeps intimidating Hun Sen like this because Thailand wants to stop completely from Hun Sen's master Hanoi encroaching into its territory.
The United States won't let the war happen between Cambodia and Thailand because the U.S. supplies all kinds of weapons, tanks, battle ships and F-16 jet fighters to Thailand. So that Thailand keeps intimidating each other like the Yellow Shirt and The Red Shirt because Thailand wants to stop completely from stupid Thai King encroaching into Cambodian territory.
Thailander
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ដឹងថា អ្នកស្នេហាជាតិខ្មែរមឹនបាច់ធ្វើអ្វីទេ
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