Bangkok Post
An Administrative Court judge has recommended that the case involving a joint communique supporting Cambodia's listing of Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage site be dismissed.
Prasak Siripanich made his recommendation yesterday before other judges during the case's first hearing.
The case has lost its validity, he said.
The court is scheduled to deliver its official verdict on the case today.
The case was filed on June 24 last year by 13 people including senators, academics and human rights activists.
In their complaint, they asked the court to revoke the June 17 cabinet resolution supporting the joint communique.
They also accused then foreign minister Noppadon Pattama and the Samak Sundaravej administration of violating the law by endorsing the communique.
The joint declaration was signed by Mr Noppadon and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18, a day after the Samak administration gave it the green light.
Mr Prasak said the joint communique was no longer valid because the Administrative Court, on June 28 last year, issued an injunction ordering its suspension. The Supreme Administrative Court later upheld the ruling.
In addition, the Constitutional Court ruled the joint communique was unconstitutional because it was not given parliamentary approval as required under Section 190 of the charter.
After the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the injunction, Mr Noppadon sent letters asking Cambodian officials, the Unesco World Heritage Committee (WHC) and related organisations to disregard the joint communique during a meeting on world heritage sites held in Quebec, Canada.
The Unesco director-general then sent a letter on July 8 last year stating that the WHC had not used the joint declaration as a basis for approving the listing of Preah Vihear.
In November 2008, the Somchai Wongsawat administration revoked the June 17 resolution approving the communique.
As such, the June 17 cabinet resolution supporting the communique was no longer legally binding and there were no grounds for the case to proceed, Mr Prasak said.
Prasak Siripanich made his recommendation yesterday before other judges during the case's first hearing.
The case has lost its validity, he said.
The court is scheduled to deliver its official verdict on the case today.
The case was filed on June 24 last year by 13 people including senators, academics and human rights activists.
In their complaint, they asked the court to revoke the June 17 cabinet resolution supporting the joint communique.
They also accused then foreign minister Noppadon Pattama and the Samak Sundaravej administration of violating the law by endorsing the communique.
The joint declaration was signed by Mr Noppadon and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18, a day after the Samak administration gave it the green light.
Mr Prasak said the joint communique was no longer valid because the Administrative Court, on June 28 last year, issued an injunction ordering its suspension. The Supreme Administrative Court later upheld the ruling.
In addition, the Constitutional Court ruled the joint communique was unconstitutional because it was not given parliamentary approval as required under Section 190 of the charter.
After the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the injunction, Mr Noppadon sent letters asking Cambodian officials, the Unesco World Heritage Committee (WHC) and related organisations to disregard the joint communique during a meeting on world heritage sites held in Quebec, Canada.
The Unesco director-general then sent a letter on July 8 last year stating that the WHC had not used the joint declaration as a basis for approving the listing of Preah Vihear.
In November 2008, the Somchai Wongsawat administration revoked the June 17 resolution approving the communique.
As such, the June 17 cabinet resolution supporting the communique was no longer legally binding and there were no grounds for the case to proceed, Mr Prasak said.
19 comments:
You just never give up the Temple, Thais. How shameful you are to be greedy with what you have stolen from your neighbour. Nothing else to say, but we are ready to host at any time.
thai can do whatever they want, i'm sure unesco and cambodia think differently from them! maybe it's just a thai problem because they dream of owning preah vihear temple of cambodia. whatever! they even go further to say that they can maintain it better than cambodia. talking about thief wanted to justify stealing from cambodia. what planet are they from, really!
It could be a pretext to go for WAR in Cambodia. Khmer soldiers should be prepared.
The trouble maker is still making trouble... where is the Thai respect?
You can take the thugs(a.k.a. siems) out of Preah Vihear, but you cannot take Preah Vihear out of the thugs.
How many more temples does the Thai want to take from Cambodia? All those temples located inside Thailand are belonged to Cambodia anyway.
Hey Bangkok Post,
How come I don't see Bangkok Post or the Nation doing any report or coverage on Thailand deporting 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to Laos? You Thais are the cruelest human on earth.
I never forget what Thais have done to our Cambodians refugees in 1979.Thais are the hartless human being,I prayed for the safety of those 4000 Hmong Refugees.
why are we surprised? the bangcock post and the nation are two very biased newspapers that serve only the thai interest, so naturally they have something to hide as they are selective in their reportings so not to give thailand bad reputation. however, they think they can keep that a secret perhaps thinking the world is so stupid not to see that. again, typical of biased and thug-like pad thugs and their clan!
I agree! Khmer army should be well prepared and stay alert, i don't know why playing sport together?, partying with Siamese bastard..? this is not good at all, did khmer forget about Lung Vek history?? they beheaded khmer and used khmer's blood to wash their feet...remembered?
Only the Khmer descent has the right and we just don't want to share our great Khmer heritage Prasat Preah Vihear with a bastard like Thai.
Please, the government get the army, navy, and uhh uhh a i r f o r c e ready for ai siems. never mind just the army, navy, and anti aircraft missiles.
Thai thief soap opera can go on dreaming.
hey, let's make clear, preah vihear is not for thailand to decide, it doesn't belong to thailand in the first place, so they are off the list. cambodia and unesco have more power to decide what preah vihear should be, not thailand pad thugs, you know! thailand got it all wrong by thinking it's theirs or something, thus they want to make their own rule, etc. not!
Who care about what the Thai court is. Khmer can tell the Thai to get fuck.
Nothing to do with Thai about our Preah Vihear Temple.
Don't bother to hear this shit news from Ah Siam.
Sorry fucking Thai. 100% Preah Vihea belongs to Cambodia. We don't want to do any join venture with you. Don't even try, Give it up now!
Too late now you Thais stupid Fuck!, it's belonge to all Khmers, all of the Temples throughout Thailand are also belonged to all Khmers, don't twist it around, history has told to the world loud and clear...
You Thais bastard never build these Temples, you only knew how to steal and robbed from your neighbors, you even steal APSARA DANCE from Khmer empier...you have kidnaped those Khmer apsara dance court of King jayavarman...!
KHMER EMPIRE! once again...
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