PHNOM PENH, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday morning said at a university in Phnom Penh that his country will not remove the Kingdom's flag flying over the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara pagoda, because it is in Cambodia's territory.
Hun Sen, at the same time, stressed that Cambodia will seek to resolve the conflict between the two countries through diplomatic or military means.
"It is a large-scale armed conflict or can also call a small- scale border war," the premier said, adding that "the aim of the Thai side is very clear that is to occupy the 4.6 sq km of scrub land next to the Preah Vihear temple which they claimed."
The clashes between Cambodia and Thailand troops have already caused many seriously damages to the temple of Preah Vihear, a World Heritage, according to the report from Cambodian military stationed at the border area.
The border between Thailand and Cambodia has never been completely demarcated and the issue of Preah Vihear temple has been an age-old dispute.
Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was enlisted as World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008. Just a week after the enlistment, Cambodia and Thailand have had border conflict due to Thai claim of the ownership of 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub next to the temple, triggering a military build-up along the border, and periodic clashes between Cambodian and Thai soldiers have resulted in the deaths of troops on both sides.
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Good Mr. Hun Sen.
Hun just says through diplomatic for bilateral only. He can go to UN because he fear that Thai would request UN to review Khmer border with Viet.
Viet has ordered him not to go for UN to get helped.
Pagoda-educated PM vs Oxford-educated PM
Oxford-educated PM already lost diplomatically.
We will see what the Oxford-educated can do in the ground field.
Tips of the day for you Mr.Hun Sen.
Get the Burma envolved from the North. And Get Malaysia to come from the sought part.
We will claim Sorin and Sisaket back.
Hun Sen almost has a nervous break down in the last few weeks.
Every time he turns on the tvs, BBC, ABC,CNN, he saw all the dictators being over thrown by their own people all over the world.
To numb the fear, instead of taking Morphine that his doctor prescribed to him, he ordered his generals to open fire on the Thai armies.
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