By Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation
Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said yesterday he would seek help from Asean countries to resolve the dispute with Thailand over the Preah Vihear temple during the Asean Summit late this month in Hua Hin/Cha-am.
He said he agreed with his Thai counterpart Kasit Piromya to seek Asean approval for the establishment of a neutral mechanism to solve disputes among member countries.
However the Thai Foreign Ministry's deputy spokesman Thani Thongpakdi has denied Kasit ever proposed an Asean dispute settlement mechanism to solve the conflict over Preah Vihear.
The minister might have been quoted out of context in media reports, he said. The Thai government had reaffirmed its position that the border dispute must be solved bilaterally through the joint boundary commission.
Meanwhile, Thailand's chief of the joint boundary commission has warned political groups in the Kingdom not to politicise the border issue for their benefit, since it could jeopardise the boundary demarcation with Cambodia.
"The border issue is very sensitive. It could be a powerful political tool if used for political purposes," said Vasin Teeravechyan Co-chair of the Thai-Cambodia Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary (JBC).
"It is dangerous to politicise the issue for personal interests," he told a seminar at the Foreign Ministry yesterday.
The JBC was set up under a memorandum of understanding signed by Thailand and Cambodia in 2000 to demarcate the temple boundary. The disputed area is located near the Hindu temple where both sides claim the overlapping territory of 4.6 squares kilometres.
The issue has been politicised recently by the People's Alliance for Democracy and its New Politics Party to gain support from nationalists to attack the government.
The group alleged the JBC had cut a deal with Cambodia on provisional arrangements for the disputed area adjacent to the temple, and accepted a Cambodian map.
In fact, Vasin said, the JBC merely proposed Parliament's approval on three minutes from the JBC meetings, and a note on what the JBC had talked about that was neither a commitment nor an agreement.
The three minutes are pending Parliament's approval to enable the commission to move on.
Vasin said a map drawn originally by France was one of many documents included in the boundary negotiation. "Whether we like it or not, we cannot rule out the role of the map," he said.
He said he agreed with his Thai counterpart Kasit Piromya to seek Asean approval for the establishment of a neutral mechanism to solve disputes among member countries.
However the Thai Foreign Ministry's deputy spokesman Thani Thongpakdi has denied Kasit ever proposed an Asean dispute settlement mechanism to solve the conflict over Preah Vihear.
The minister might have been quoted out of context in media reports, he said. The Thai government had reaffirmed its position that the border dispute must be solved bilaterally through the joint boundary commission.
Meanwhile, Thailand's chief of the joint boundary commission has warned political groups in the Kingdom not to politicise the border issue for their benefit, since it could jeopardise the boundary demarcation with Cambodia.
"The border issue is very sensitive. It could be a powerful political tool if used for political purposes," said Vasin Teeravechyan Co-chair of the Thai-Cambodia Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary (JBC).
"It is dangerous to politicise the issue for personal interests," he told a seminar at the Foreign Ministry yesterday.
The JBC was set up under a memorandum of understanding signed by Thailand and Cambodia in 2000 to demarcate the temple boundary. The disputed area is located near the Hindu temple where both sides claim the overlapping territory of 4.6 squares kilometres.
The issue has been politicised recently by the People's Alliance for Democracy and its New Politics Party to gain support from nationalists to attack the government.
The group alleged the JBC had cut a deal with Cambodia on provisional arrangements for the disputed area adjacent to the temple, and accepted a Cambodian map.
In fact, Vasin said, the JBC merely proposed Parliament's approval on three minutes from the JBC meetings, and a note on what the JBC had talked about that was neither a commitment nor an agreement.
The three minutes are pending Parliament's approval to enable the commission to move on.
Vasin said a map drawn originally by France was one of many documents included in the boundary negotiation. "Whether we like it or not, we cannot rule out the role of the map," he said.
9 comments:
If Hun Sen and his comrades are smart enough , they will take that case to the UN to solve it . When the thieves break into your home , you shoot them or call the police .. no need to negotiate .
that's what you should do.
YOU KNOW WHAT THAILAND FUCK YOU....................AND FUCK ANY OF YOU WHO GOT A PROBLEM WITH THIS.....FUCKING THAILAND IS A PIECE OF SHIT FUCKING COUNTRY THATS ALWAYS LIKE TO LIE, STUPID FUCKING FAGS, HOPE BURMA NUKE YOU MOTHERFCUKERS
FUCK THAILAND ....IF ANYBODY GOT A PROBLEM WITH WHAT IAM SAYING FUCK YOU TO YOU FUCKING TRADERS GO AND DIE WITH THE FUCKING SIEMS BITCH.....
It is a long overdue dispute over border that Thailand continues to change course of history in order to spread over cambodia.
This fear of pushing from East towards West and loosing cambodia to Vietnam.Culturally,cambodia is the origin due to the peak of Kingdom of cambodia. Whiping out cambodia is the threat of direction to the west and the loss of Thailand heritage(Khmer culture and arts, artifects).
Can you please,Thai newspaper, stop manipulating Preah Vihear, it is not Hindu temple( led to believe it is belonged to both cambodia and Thailand). History and the UN court confim that.
Streghten ourselve economically, improve ourselve with Ethics and morality to maintain our pride, reduce our greed that destroy ourselve, indeed for our pride and our survival.
We can do it, as our ancestors had done in the past.
Neang SA
of course, siem is flip-flopping as usually, first, they want asean arbitration, now they act like an indiscipline child or problematic child. i say cambodia should stick to our own agenda of getting asean members and the international diplomatic community involve in order to help end this and pace the way for permanent demarcation of the borders with siem. this way, siem cannot do as they please say 50 or 100 years from now, etc...
KADUEYYYYYYYYYYYYY MAY AHH SIEM
Khmer Gov. always walks behind Thai.
Khmer Gov. is scare to go to UN & ASIAN.
But with their own people, they will do against them.
THAILAND SUCKS
I just don't understand why these greedy Animal races keep dragging on this issue. the 4.5 surrounding land is belong to the Khmers, No one built temple without land around, If Hun Sen as strong man, you must stand firm with your original decision, go to the international court to clarify this mess. Don’t let the Thai keep jerking around. This game must be stop. If they come across the line, shoot them.
Khmer Kid
thailand unruly gov't have something to hide if they don't want to internationalized the border dispute. i mean how else are they going to do it without cambodia retaliate them, really!
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