BANGKOK, Aug 22 (MCOT online news) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday he may have an opportunity to confer on the ancient Preah Vihear temple problem with his Cambodian counterpart Prime Minister Hun Sen during the Asia-Europe (ASEM) Summit to be held in Brussels in October.
Mr Hun Sen earlier wrote to the United Nations and other international bodies, urging their intervention to help settle the dispute with Thailand over the border temple and nearby disputed territory claimed by both countries.
But Mr Abhisit on Sunday reiterated Thailand's view that the problem could be resolved by the two neighbouring countries themselves, without outside help, even from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Mr Abhisit said he may have a chance to discuss the problem during the ASEM summit without the involvement of any international organisation third country official.
Admitting that both the Thai and Cambodian governments are facing “pressures domestically”, Mr Abhisit said he believed that the two neighbouring countries which are also ASEAN members want to avoid armed clashes and try to find a way out.
In 1962, the International Court of Justice ruled the temple belongs to Cambodia, rejecting Thai claims. UNESCO named Preah Vihear temple a World Heritage site in 2008, after Cambodia applied for the status. Cambodia’s World Heritage bid reignited Thai resentment over the earlier ruling, and there have been small and sometimes deadly armed clashes in the area during the past few years.
Mr Hun Sen earlier wrote to the United Nations and other international bodies, urging their intervention to help settle the dispute with Thailand over the border temple and nearby disputed territory claimed by both countries.
But Mr Abhisit on Sunday reiterated Thailand's view that the problem could be resolved by the two neighbouring countries themselves, without outside help, even from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Mr Abhisit said he may have a chance to discuss the problem during the ASEM summit without the involvement of any international organisation third country official.
Admitting that both the Thai and Cambodian governments are facing “pressures domestically”, Mr Abhisit said he believed that the two neighbouring countries which are also ASEAN members want to avoid armed clashes and try to find a way out.
In 1962, the International Court of Justice ruled the temple belongs to Cambodia, rejecting Thai claims. UNESCO named Preah Vihear temple a World Heritage site in 2008, after Cambodia applied for the status. Cambodia’s World Heritage bid reignited Thai resentment over the earlier ruling, and there have been small and sometimes deadly armed clashes in the area during the past few years.
4 comments:
ATTN:Khun ABHISHIT VIJJAJIVA,Even you came from the top of the School of oxford got Phd., Master degree, ect...you're still blind because you don't understand about suffering is caused by disires OR UNSATISFACTORINESS.None would be above the laws,especially natural law and the law of your bad Kamma's Actions. KHUN KHA KHANG MANOUS U TI NAY...? Khun ABHISHIT my me doungta hinn Dhamma Khun loung. "KWAM ROO THIM TOUR HOAUR OUT TOUR MY ROT". A KWAM NGOR NI ANDARAY MARK.
Khanti's Forbearance
Cambodia need to buy TOR-M1, BUK-M1-2, while Thailand received new fighting jets jas..39, Cambodia must be well prepared just incase Thailand threaten us with their new air-craft....
doctor full with blindness but he like popet or tool of a queen big pussy พระราชินีหีใหญ่
try as they can, but i don't think siem can avoid the international intervention, eventually, especially when all the so-called bilateral talks failed again and again, you know!
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