June 22, 2009
ABC Radio Australia
Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has announced that the country's heritage committee will ask UNESCO to reconsider its decision giving control of the 11th century Preah Vihear temple and its surrounding land to Cambodia.
That decision has led to deadly clashes between Thai and Cambodian border guards over the past year.
Thailand will ask the World Heritage meeting in Spain this week, for the grounds of the temple to be placed under joint Thai-Cambodian maintenance, arguing that most visitors approach the temple from the Thai side.
Presenter: Claudette Werden
Speaker: Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn, Senior advisor to the Prime Minister's office
WATTANAYAGORN: The meeting of UNESCOS committee is to be held in Spain, so the Ministry in charge of the membership notified the Cabinet that the Ministry as a representative of its member committee will protest against UNESCO's decision to allow Cambodia to register the temple areas alone, Thai prime minister did not reopen the issue anyway.
WERDEN: But now its sparked a huge diplomatic row between Cambodia and Thailand ago so we're going back to the same problem?
WATTANAYAGORN: Not really if you notice most countries Thailand in particular are not blaming anything on Cambodia we are just concerned about the role of UNESCO, the relationship between Thailand and Cambodia was quite normal and stable until UNESCO allowed registration of the temple area not temple but temple area to be done unilaterally since then clashes took place, and since them life has been lost and since then casualties have been inflicted on the two countries, it is the responsibility we believe that UNESCO should attempt to look into this issue and matters closely and help try to solve them problem and try to come up with remedies and that is our position
WERDEN: I notice the Prime Minister is actually recommending some kind of joint governing committee between Cambodia and Thailand to control the area surrounding the temple?
WATTANAYAGORN: Indeed that is the rules of UNESCO, in areas that are not clear, in areas that are overlapping between countries UNESCO usually recommends the two countries or parties involved to jointly manage or register the areas and we're simplying reiterating UNESCO'S rules and that's what we are doing.
WERDEN: Can we just clarify you're talking about the area surrounding the temple, Thailand doesn't dispute the temple belongs to Cambodia?
WATTANAYAGORN: Well we certainly feel strongly that the whole area is not clear but of course the International Court of Justice many decades ago issued a statement and verdict giving Cambodia the right over the temple, but not the temple area, so we as part of the world community will recognise that verdict.
WERDEN: You're aware that Cambodia has issued a statement in the media rebuking Thailand for raising the matter again?
WATTANAYAGORN: We're not raising the matter, we're just acknowledging the attendance of one of our ministers who will be representing as a member of that committee meeting in Spain next week, so that is our position.
That decision has led to deadly clashes between Thai and Cambodian border guards over the past year.
Thailand will ask the World Heritage meeting in Spain this week, for the grounds of the temple to be placed under joint Thai-Cambodian maintenance, arguing that most visitors approach the temple from the Thai side.
Presenter: Claudette Werden
Speaker: Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn, Senior advisor to the Prime Minister's office
WATTANAYAGORN: The meeting of UNESCOS committee is to be held in Spain, so the Ministry in charge of the membership notified the Cabinet that the Ministry as a representative of its member committee will protest against UNESCO's decision to allow Cambodia to register the temple areas alone, Thai prime minister did not reopen the issue anyway.
WERDEN: But now its sparked a huge diplomatic row between Cambodia and Thailand ago so we're going back to the same problem?
WATTANAYAGORN: Not really if you notice most countries Thailand in particular are not blaming anything on Cambodia we are just concerned about the role of UNESCO, the relationship between Thailand and Cambodia was quite normal and stable until UNESCO allowed registration of the temple area not temple but temple area to be done unilaterally since then clashes took place, and since them life has been lost and since then casualties have been inflicted on the two countries, it is the responsibility we believe that UNESCO should attempt to look into this issue and matters closely and help try to solve them problem and try to come up with remedies and that is our position
WERDEN: I notice the Prime Minister is actually recommending some kind of joint governing committee between Cambodia and Thailand to control the area surrounding the temple?
WATTANAYAGORN: Indeed that is the rules of UNESCO, in areas that are not clear, in areas that are overlapping between countries UNESCO usually recommends the two countries or parties involved to jointly manage or register the areas and we're simplying reiterating UNESCO'S rules and that's what we are doing.
WERDEN: Can we just clarify you're talking about the area surrounding the temple, Thailand doesn't dispute the temple belongs to Cambodia?
WATTANAYAGORN: Well we certainly feel strongly that the whole area is not clear but of course the International Court of Justice many decades ago issued a statement and verdict giving Cambodia the right over the temple, but not the temple area, so we as part of the world community will recognise that verdict.
WERDEN: You're aware that Cambodia has issued a statement in the media rebuking Thailand for raising the matter again?
WATTANAYAGORN: We're not raising the matter, we're just acknowledging the attendance of one of our ministers who will be representing as a member of that committee meeting in Spain next week, so that is our position.
11 comments:
She is so confused. Isn't she? yes no no yes. Fucked up woman. Who in the hell can understand her anyway?
Hey 11:37, you are the moron one. I think the interviewer did an excellent job in clarifying what is it that Thailand really wants from UNESCO: The Temple of Preah Vihear or the land surrounding the temple. If we go back in time, the French controlled both the temple and the surroudning area. If Sihanouk had asked the International Court to give the verdict on the surrounding area around the temple at the time, Cambodia would have easily got recognized as well based on the French map of the era that Thailand never disputed. So the Werden did a nice job in clarifying what Thailand is specifically talking about, that is not the temple, but the temple's surrouding area only. So it is you who can't understand anything.
1:42pm, you are so negative to Sihanouk, aren't you? I also realised that he is not good enough to make Cambodia stable and safe. However, you should give him some credits for what he has done. At that time, the nation was just independent and rebuilt from the scratch. Although the case was not fully successful, the surrounding areas remain occupied by the Khmers since that day up to date. Look who are they, and who are we?
Be positive would be a promising to the same compatriot!
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, CA
Wattanayagorn, Thai bandit, Preah Vihear Temple located inside Cambodia territory, we had map to prove it which was recognized by international communities.
New Phally
Thai government is trying hard to please their dying king, to be a shameless country forever!!
Vannak
1:42 it seem you just only heard what you want to hear. Or at least you didn't understand what you read. let me put it into bold for you again Well we certainly feel strongly that the whole area is not clear
that is clear for you about the Thai position? It's not as you say, just the "surrounding temple", that's just the softer cover up tone but you know a liar can't lie too good because when you say statements like the quote above, it's clear where your ambitions lies.
That clear for you? Or you need me to you refer you back to ESL 101?
Cambodia need to give Thailand one BiG bitter tasts of war, cambodia had already been tasted too long, if Thailand still insisted, khmer empier will be glad to give Thai-thieft one bad tasts....that will remembered the rest of your greedy fags KING-life...
Don't un-derestimated CAMBODIA rusty weapons, they can still shoot your king ass like PAPAYA!!
Stupid Fucken Thai military leader that cause all of these problems, this stupid guy called "Anupong pao chinda" thie bastard is very greedy about getting back khmer Temple, he's the one that screwed everything up and down! he had created the whole crisis, spreading from Thailand always to Cambodia...the ivasions is him!!
Please, close the boarder around Prah Vihar in order to stop any claim from Thailand.
cambodia is not that dump, thailand. what else you guy have, beside the intention to take preah vihear from cambodia? go ahead and use any excuses you have, but preah vihear will always belongs to cambodia. thus, we don't need to ask thailand for permission to develop our temple! get lost, thailand! unesco is not bowing to your illegal demand! unesco only take the law into consideration, not your unruly demand and illegal demand,ok!
this is why cambodia have problem with thailand, their illegal demand and disrespect for the international treaty, law, etc... don't be telling cambodia what to do or not to do. we do not need siem thugs to tell us anything, ok!
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