Xinhua
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will raise border issues with Thailand at area near the 11th century Khmer Preah Vihear temple at the forthcoming ASEAN summit, Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said on Wednesday.
"We requested the Thai side (Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya) in my official letter to put the border issues between Cambodia and Thailand in the agenda of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit but the Thai side so far has not replied to me officially," Hor told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Hor stressed that "border issues between Cambodia and Thailand are easy to settle and easy to plant the border markers if the Thai side respects international regulations" as the verdict of international court and border treaty in 1904 and 1907 and existing mechanism.
"It is the last choice that we will take the border issues with Thailand to international institutions," he said, adding that actually, "we want to deal with the issue through bilateral and peaceful deal."
Thailand will host ASEAN summit on Oct. 23-25.
Troops with heavy weapons from Cambodia and Thailand have conflicted on border at areas near Preah Vihear temple since July 15, 2008 after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization approved Cambodia's sole bid to list the 11th century temple as a world heritage site.
But, the question of sovereignty over the land has never been clearly resolved as Thailand and Cambodia share a nearly 800-kilometer long common border.
The international court ruled the Preah Vihear temple belonged to Cambodia more than 40 years ago, but border dispute over areas around the temple has remained a fuse in the two neighboring countries' relationship.
Armed clashed occurred two or three times and killed several soldiers from both sides.
"We requested the Thai side (Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya) in my official letter to put the border issues between Cambodia and Thailand in the agenda of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit but the Thai side so far has not replied to me officially," Hor told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Hor stressed that "border issues between Cambodia and Thailand are easy to settle and easy to plant the border markers if the Thai side respects international regulations" as the verdict of international court and border treaty in 1904 and 1907 and existing mechanism.
"It is the last choice that we will take the border issues with Thailand to international institutions," he said, adding that actually, "we want to deal with the issue through bilateral and peaceful deal."
Thailand will host ASEAN summit on Oct. 23-25.
Troops with heavy weapons from Cambodia and Thailand have conflicted on border at areas near Preah Vihear temple since July 15, 2008 after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization approved Cambodia's sole bid to list the 11th century temple as a world heritage site.
But, the question of sovereignty over the land has never been clearly resolved as Thailand and Cambodia share a nearly 800-kilometer long common border.
The international court ruled the Preah Vihear temple belonged to Cambodia more than 40 years ago, but border dispute over areas around the temple has remained a fuse in the two neighboring countries' relationship.
Armed clashed occurred two or three times and killed several soldiers from both sides.
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I am one of Khmers, not Ly diep, living among some of you. As I click to check your webside, I found a short article painting Ly diep as... And two lines at the bottom of your short article you wrote, "Khmer People are the people who are united as always, but some neighbors, like Siams, Yuons, try to find every possible way to make Khmer argue/fight with oneanother." What I want to say to you is that, you should not shift your total blame to neighbors. It's Khmers themselves who are actually not united as you claim them to be. And don't be mistaken by thinking that I'm not as much Khmer as you are. I am, but I don't want Khmers to fail seeing their own problems. If Khmers are really and patriotically united, NO one can break Khmers apart.
I know that the whole of your team consists of Hun Sen's lickspittles, lacking patriotism as real Khmers. Why don't you take a good look at what your Hun Sen and his comrads have done so far? This is an account of recent Khmer's factual history that all of us have witnessed with our own eyes. If you can see the recent facts, you can see that other Khmer rulers in previous regimes had done the same things: For their personal interests and greed, they run to Siems or Yuons, or Chens to help them in exchange of paying back to them tons of debt. As I say other Khmer rulers, I would want to exclude Lon Nol, who actually was the scapegoat that took tons of responsibility to solve the problems of Prince Sihaouk's reckless acts which leads to today mess for Khmer younger generation.
Hun Sen need to stop wasting time with thai about the Preah Vihear issue .. take that case to the UN and will see what Thai is going to do about it.
yes, i think it is ok for khmer people to be aware of past mistakes, etc, however, we must also strive to improve ourselves and not necessarily blame others race for our past, tragic history. i'm sure if we can go back to the past and change the course of our history, we would. i think we should make afford to remind ourselves not to repeat or go the same destructive path again, instead, we should learn from our history and learn from all wise people of the wise and focusing on reform our old system in order to look forward to a bright, happy, prosperous future for all of our people and country. we all have to leave the planet one day, however, we know that our nation will always stay here on the planet for as long as the sun shines on our planet and the moon rotates around our planet called earth. so, let's all learn and be wiser from experience and from study history so we can avoid at all cost the same path of destruction. yes, there are more to cambodia than you and i, really! may god bless cambodia forever and ever.
All Asian Nations should become one just like European Nations, having a one currency "Euro" as well as having a common goal and common interest. Let say if one country is getting into trouble then the rest will come together as one and help that nation. All nations need come together to create a common law to protect everyone equally and that everyone is “equally important” If Asian people don't look for ways to unite, we will be wiped out by other nation just like that and it is happening now to some countries right in front of your eyes already. Asian Nations, you all should be smarter by now, too. I give you one question why do European Nations create a common goal and common interest? It is because they don’t want the super power nations like Russia, China or USA one day decided to attack them. You see , their aim is to secure each other from being such attack. If our Asian Nations don't prepare into this position ASAP then who knows we be going back to World War 1 and world war 2 and this means we are (in the 21st century) getting dumber and dumber. We Asian nations must learn from the past mistakes and turn it into a positive learning outcome! Don't try to get outsiders for help on how to build the relationships between Asian Nations because base on human instinct no one nation want other nation to be better off than them in any way, simple as! Otherwise they wouldn’t have this Englo Saxon in the first place. Englo Saxon includes; England, Canada, USA, Aust, NZ, and more, all have common goal and common interest. Asian Nations need to do the same and be smarter by now, OK, cheers.
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