Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, right, and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhongafter signing a prisoner exchange agreement in Bangkok yesterday. (JETJARASNARANONG)6/08/2009
Writer: THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL
Bangkok Post
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to waive visa requirements for each other's citizens starting next year to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations.
The agreement was reached yesterday at the Thai-Cambodian Joint Commission meeting led by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. The meeting was the first by the commission since talks were suspended three years ago.
The agreement to waive the visas for holders of ordinary passports is expected to be signed next year as part of activities celebrating the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries 60 years ago.
The decision leaves Burma as the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations requiring Thais wishing to enter the country to apply for a visa.
Hor Namhong said Thailand and Cambodia also agreed to strengthen cooperation on tourism by jointly promoting the sector under the Two Kingdoms, One Destination project and would expedite the single visa policy between the two countries.
He said the two sides would hasten the next Joint Boundary Commission meeting, chaired by former Thai ambassador to Seoul Vasin Teeravechyan and his Cambodian counterpart Var Kim Hong, and resume the Joint Technical Committee meeting on overlapping maritime claims which has been suspended since 2006.
Mr Kasit said all obstacles to border negotiations would soon be resolved.
In a joint statement, the two ministers said they would work together to identify the area bridging Sa Kaeo province and Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province before setting up a new international checkpoint.
An Emerald Triangle meeting would be held soon to help develop human resources, Hor Namhong said.
Mr Kasit and Hor Namhong yesterday also signed an agreement that would allow some prisoners, after serving minimum periods of imprisonment, to be transferred in order to serve their remaining sentences in their own country.
The agreement was reached yesterday at the Thai-Cambodian Joint Commission meeting led by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. The meeting was the first by the commission since talks were suspended three years ago.
The agreement to waive the visas for holders of ordinary passports is expected to be signed next year as part of activities celebrating the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries 60 years ago.
The decision leaves Burma as the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations requiring Thais wishing to enter the country to apply for a visa.
Hor Namhong said Thailand and Cambodia also agreed to strengthen cooperation on tourism by jointly promoting the sector under the Two Kingdoms, One Destination project and would expedite the single visa policy between the two countries.
He said the two sides would hasten the next Joint Boundary Commission meeting, chaired by former Thai ambassador to Seoul Vasin Teeravechyan and his Cambodian counterpart Var Kim Hong, and resume the Joint Technical Committee meeting on overlapping maritime claims which has been suspended since 2006.
Mr Kasit said all obstacles to border negotiations would soon be resolved.
In a joint statement, the two ministers said they would work together to identify the area bridging Sa Kaeo province and Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province before setting up a new international checkpoint.
An Emerald Triangle meeting would be held soon to help develop human resources, Hor Namhong said.
Mr Kasit and Hor Namhong yesterday also signed an agreement that would allow some prisoners, after serving minimum periods of imprisonment, to be transferred in order to serve their remaining sentences in their own country.
9 comments:
what i don't like is the siem waited too long to do this. it better benefit khmer!
make sure if the siem want to dance with khmer, they must credit and respect khmer dances and not steal khmer dances and think it's their dance. that's the problem with trusting siem! i think camboida should patent and have copyright law to protect our national treasure like our ancient royal balet, and other traditional khmer dances and costume, etc... this is the world can recognize that it's khmer's and not confuse it to be siem's. the siem has a history of stealing from khmer; they even stole our culture, tradition like dances, costume, and many many many more! i don't think anything in thailand is original. they owed big time to the khmer of cambodia, really! it's an understatement to say otherwise! the proper way is to credit khmer for everything they borrowed or adopt from khmer civilization. otherwise, it is stealing, you know, that's why we keep calling them thieves! because they don't give khmer proper credit for borrowing and adoptin our culture, tradition, etc, etc... learn the correct history from cambodia, ok!
siem is so artificial, khmer is genuine and original in every way! god bless cambodia.
I think siamese given up, because they don't want their ass kick again! Siamese had tested khmer army twice, now they knew how strong khmer army are, and we must continue upgrading our military step by step, don't be too careless, neglect and go to sleep....we had lost three soldiers because neglected leaders!
Siamese fish with bait, Yuon fish with bomb. Both ways, fishes end up grilled. History must be learned.
Yuon and Siem are territory robbers.
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Cambodia got money right now! we should do something about upgrading our military power and of couse road, brigdes, dams, schooling must also increasing throughout cambodia....
correction = of course we must upgrade our schooling system with high tech...
Dream on it. That is the last thing Cambodian ruled by Mafia men will let it happens.
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