By Rasmei Kampuchea/Asia News Network, Deutsche Presse Agentur
Phnom Penh - Cambodian and Thai armed forces chiefs said 13 months of sometimes-fatal hostilities around the ancient Preah Vihear temple are at an end.
After the meeting, Thai Supreme Commander Gen Songkitti Jaggabatra said the dispute would no longer be allowed to damage relations between the two kingdoms.
"I would like to clarify again that there will be no more problems between Thailand and Cambodia. The border will not be the cause of any further disputes," he said.
"Cambodia and Thailand can not live separately. As Asean members, both countries shall not be in any cannot confrontation," said Songkiti.
At least seven soldiers from both sides were killed in occasional clashes around the temple complex since mid-2008 in a tense standoff that has had other members of the Asean regional bloc concerned.
Meanwhile Songkitti's counterpart; Gen Pol Saroeun echoed; "We have the same view. Our goal is to achieve peace and solidarity with each other as siblings."
Their meeting came just days after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Cambodia would cut the number of troops stationed at Preah Vihear after Thailand reduced its forces to just 30 soldiers.
Preah Vihear Temple has been at the heart of controversy between Thailand and Cambodia. In 1962, the World Court granted ownership of the temple to Cambodia. The conflict erupted again after the Unesco listed it into the World Heritage List, a move that draw opposition from the Thai side.
After the meeting, Thai Supreme Commander Gen Songkitti Jaggabatra said the dispute would no longer be allowed to damage relations between the two kingdoms.
"I would like to clarify again that there will be no more problems between Thailand and Cambodia. The border will not be the cause of any further disputes," he said.
"Cambodia and Thailand can not live separately. As Asean members, both countries shall not be in any cannot confrontation," said Songkiti.
At least seven soldiers from both sides were killed in occasional clashes around the temple complex since mid-2008 in a tense standoff that has had other members of the Asean regional bloc concerned.
Meanwhile Songkitti's counterpart; Gen Pol Saroeun echoed; "We have the same view. Our goal is to achieve peace and solidarity with each other as siblings."
Their meeting came just days after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Cambodia would cut the number of troops stationed at Preah Vihear after Thailand reduced its forces to just 30 soldiers.
Preah Vihear Temple has been at the heart of controversy between Thailand and Cambodia. In 1962, the World Court granted ownership of the temple to Cambodia. The conflict erupted again after the Unesco listed it into the World Heritage List, a move that draw opposition from the Thai side.
6 comments:
Yep! you look down on poor khmer army, now you realized that khmer is not pussy army like yours, rusty AK-47 can killed about 100 of your pussy army too...better stop encroaching bitch!!
It is rather a strange comment that cambodia and thailand cannot live separately. cambodia and Thailand can of course live separately as a sovereign country.
It is indeed that we can have bilateral relationship regarding economy and other agreements as both countries agreed to.
Mutual respect is required from both side in friendship term, and not abuse Cambodia again and again which seem to be history of Thailand in doing so.
Thailand is not Cambodia's big brother, thank you.
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Posted by Xocheata
the siem thugs are changing their strategy, maybe that's because they saw something in cambodia that is unbeatable. khmer people say "go back to nanchoa province of china already!" khmer people want all of our old khmer provinces back!
Who is to say that the border conflict between the two countries is over. Khmers do not need Songkiti's words to resolve anything...we know what thailand is up to.
Stupid Thai-Thief bastard is the one that started the problems, all fighting erupted started from Thai black clad soldiers who taunting, mocking at khmer soldier, i'm proud of our soldier that kick thailand ass real bad, khmer army must keep up strengthen our troops...
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