TNA and Bangkok Post
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has vowed that Thailand will not accept any loss of its territorial sovereignty following Cambodia's announcement of a proposed management plan for the Preah Vihear temple
In his weekly address yesterday, Mr Abhisit said he had ordered Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti to oppose the management plan Cambodia was presenting at a Unesco meeting in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, which began yesterday and will continue until Aug 3.
Thailand objects to the Cambodian management plan because it includes the disputed 4.6 square kilometre buffer zone claimed by the two countries. The Thai side says sovereignty over the area has yet to be settled.
Mr Abhisit said the Foreign Ministry would lodge a protest if it finds that Cambodia was threatening Thailand's territorial sovereignty.
He said the government would not recognise the map that Cambodia is expected to submit to the World Heritage Committee, as the 1962 map, which awarded Preah Vihear to Cambodia, did not demarcate the border between the two countries.
Tensions have been high and troop stand-offs frequent along the disputed border since July 2008, when the Preah Vihear temple was granted World Heritage status by Unesco.
Mr Abhisit said that if the heritage committee approved Cambodia's management plan, Thailand had a strategy in place to oppose the decision.
Mr Abhisit had earlier dismissed calls from the People's Alliance for Democracy for Thailand to boycott the World Heritage Committee meeting in Brazil.
Democrat Party spokesman Buranat Samutharak has reiterated the demarcation of the area around Preah Vihear must be settled before Cambodia can propose a plan to unilaterally manage the site.
He said he believed the Cambodian side would cite an earlier communique from the Samak Sundaravej administration that acquiesced to Phnom Penh's right to apply for World Heritage status for the site alone.
The joint declaration was signed by former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18, 2008, a day after the Thai government gave it the green light.
The Constitution Court later ruled the communique was unconstitutional as it bypassed parliamentary approval.
In his weekly address yesterday, Mr Abhisit said he had ordered Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti to oppose the management plan Cambodia was presenting at a Unesco meeting in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, which began yesterday and will continue until Aug 3.
Thailand objects to the Cambodian management plan because it includes the disputed 4.6 square kilometre buffer zone claimed by the two countries. The Thai side says sovereignty over the area has yet to be settled.
Mr Abhisit said the Foreign Ministry would lodge a protest if it finds that Cambodia was threatening Thailand's territorial sovereignty.
He said the government would not recognise the map that Cambodia is expected to submit to the World Heritage Committee, as the 1962 map, which awarded Preah Vihear to Cambodia, did not demarcate the border between the two countries.
Tensions have been high and troop stand-offs frequent along the disputed border since July 2008, when the Preah Vihear temple was granted World Heritage status by Unesco.
Mr Abhisit said that if the heritage committee approved Cambodia's management plan, Thailand had a strategy in place to oppose the decision.
Mr Abhisit had earlier dismissed calls from the People's Alliance for Democracy for Thailand to boycott the World Heritage Committee meeting in Brazil.
Democrat Party spokesman Buranat Samutharak has reiterated the demarcation of the area around Preah Vihear must be settled before Cambodia can propose a plan to unilaterally manage the site.
He said he believed the Cambodian side would cite an earlier communique from the Samak Sundaravej administration that acquiesced to Phnom Penh's right to apply for World Heritage status for the site alone.
The joint declaration was signed by former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18, 2008, a day after the Thai government gave it the green light.
The Constitution Court later ruled the communique was unconstitutional as it bypassed parliamentary approval.
8 comments:
Take France to court so France can tell THAILAND how many more provinces belong to cambodia (including Sisaket, Surin etc...)The Siamesse should be ashame what they cause to cambodia and their people including cambodian in those thai provinces. they brain wash those cambodian in thai provinces by money.
Abhisit Vejjajiva the bandit must withdraw his troop from Khmer territory.
Yes we're should asking France,cuse France are the one that have gaven our lands to Siames, we have lost alots of province to Siames already. We should asking U.N to get our lost land back from Siames can we do that or what?
Thanks to the Primeminister Abhisith, but no thanks. Don't you feel that you have enough land for the Thai kingdom? You Chinese-Siamese are too greedy. The Isaan problem hasn't been resolved yet. The current border was setup unfairly by the French, by using the hills and rivers as the border from French Indochina and Thailand.
Some provinces of the lower Isaan are still proven to be Khmer territory. The French Government gave to Thailand the provinces of Royang and Chantaburi, in order to exchange with Battambang, Siem Reap and Kampong Thom. From those two provinces, Royang and Chantaburi, majority of the Gulf area belongs to Thailand, however you are still not satisfied with that and you expect more and more. What are your supportive arguments for more territory from Khmer land? Or just to serve your own political ambitions?
Both Laos-Isaan and Khmer-Isaan will rise up one day in search of their true identity. 20 million of Isaan still speak Laos fluently, not Thai. Also look at the recent decision by the World High Court of Justice in Geneva for the independence of Kosovo. Are you blind or deaf?
What ta fuck you going to do Abhishit Vejjajiva? you threaten us? well, tell you what! 4.6km is inside our territory moron! Khmer will proceed with the plans...what ta fuck you going to do about that?? you think you can threaten us with your modern weapons? well, we only need bow an errow just to kill you Thai Thief bastard motherfucker!!!!!!
I agree with 11:18am! if Thailand wanted to fuck with us so much, why don't we do that? take French to the court...
There no such thing as 4.6km disputed.4.6Km is only road that cambodian can drive to the preah vihear temple. You kmow what it's mean when the thais want this 4.6km, they want to share the temple or take the temple by themself.
MY DEAR KHMER COMPATRIOTS,I HAVE TOLD YOU LONG TIME AGO!,ALL THE CAUSES IN CAMBODIA ARE BEING FUCKED UP BY THE FUCKING FRENCH`S AUTHORITY!,INCLUDING THE WEST TO SIAMES AND THE EAST TO THE FUCKING BASTARD VIET MING MOTHERFUCKERS!.WE SHOULD SUE THE FRENCH BY BRING THEM TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE!.(BECAUSE ALL THE KHMER`S TERRITORIES HAVE BEEN LOST BY THE FRENCH`S COLONY).NO KHMER KING OR LEADERS,HAVE SINGNED TO GIVE OUR LANDS AWAY TO ALL THE BASTARD NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES!!!!.UNFORTUNATELY,WE MUST TO DEAL WITH THE SIAMES ABOUT THE PREAS VIHEAR TEMPLE!,THE FIRST STEP!.TO THE EAST OF CAMBODIA THE FRENCHMEN LOVE YOUN`S PUSSIES,TO THE WEST OF CAMBODIA THE FRENCHMEN LIKE GOLD AND SILVER!.THAT`S WHY,SOME OF OUR LEADERS ARE ABOMINATING TO THE FOREIGNERS OF THE WEST,BECAUSE THEY ARE ALWAYS UNFAIRED TO THE KHMER PEOPLES!.THOSE THINGS`RE ABOMINABLE TO OUR POLITICIANS LEADERS.MAY GOD AND GODBUDHHA BLESS THE KINGDOM OF KAMBUJA AND HER PEOPLES AROUND THE GLOBE.UNITED KHMER PEOPLES STAND,DIVIDED KHMER PEOPLES FALL,ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN,OR WHERE EVER YOU GO!,PROUD OF BEING KUON KHMERES.
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