PHNOM PENH, Feb. 26 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A five-member Indonesian military team visited the Cambodia- Thai disputed border area on Saturday to pave the way for deployment of Indonesian observers in the region, a senior Cambodian defense official said.
Gen. Neang Phat, vice minister of national defense, told Kyodo News by telephone that the Indonesian advance team visited the ancient Cambodian temple of Preah Vihear and the surrounding area to find a suitable location for deployment, which will be made under an ASEAN- brokered deal.
He said the Indonesians spent several hours in the area and will report back to the Indonesian government, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Cambodia and Thailand agreed during an ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta on Tuesday to invite Indonesia to deploy civilian and military observers to monitor a ceasefire agreement in the border area.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Indonesia will dispatch two separate teams to Cambodia and Thailand, each consisting of 15 to 20 military personnel and civilians.
Neang Phat said it is unclear when the observers will start their mission but expressed hope that it will be "soon."
The observer mission will be ASEAN's first since 2005 when the regional group and the European Union set up the Aceh Monitoring Mission to oversee disarmament in Indonesia's Aceh Province following a peace agreement between Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement.
Cambodia and Thailand have been at loggerheads since 2008 over an area involving 4.6 square kilometers of land near the Indus temple shortly after it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since then several rounds of armed clashes have erupted, the most recent from Feb. 4 to 7. The conflict has left at least 10 people dead, nearly 100 wounded and more than 25,000 people displaced on both sides.
The U.N. Security Council has expressed "grave concern" over the border skirmishes and urged the establishment of a permanent cease- fire.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
5 comments:
It's not a matter of saving Cambodia,it's amatter of saving thier power'CPP',if HUN SEN realy love khmer this probleme should be clair year a go.CAMBODIA HAS A MAP AT UN.
Thailand has already fill in UNESCO's head and bad mouth about Cambodian...Thailand is good in find the way to instigate, they(Thai) think, they are the only one is PERFECT????? and blamed everything on Khmers????
Its good to have Asean team acts as mediator, otherwise Siam bastard will continue bullying inorder to provoke the fighting...But this thing just a temp? Cambodia must take Thailand to international court of justice again...
abhisit and kasit are clearly have committed crime against Cambodian nation and against the international communities around the world,he didn't respect the UNESCO and the verdict of ICJ in 1962.In order to and the only way to win the deadly rival chaos between the RED shirt and the yellow shirt in Thailand,abhisit and kasit diverted the problem toward Cambodia and taking Preah Vihear Temple as their hostage.
With one flip flop arrow abhisit can freeze many different big birds:
1- U.N ignored the Cambodian government's appeal.
2- Jakarta can only keep the plaintiff's right is equal to defender's right.
3- UNESCO can not further proceed it's right for being the UNESCO.
4- Khmer's temple was in loss and damage.
5- Internal abhisit gain popularity of handling his politic.
*** all Cambodian people,high school,faculty,university student,teachers and all kind of Khmer people should join with gov.without limitation of parties or back ground to a mass protest demanding abhisit to the international court for his crime damaging the heritage of the world and suggest to UNESCO to take good care of World Heritage.
Keo Nate
Dear all native Khmers in Thailand,
Your great grandparents, grandparents and your parents are Khmers. All Khmers in Srok Khmer and Khmers around the world are our brothers and sisters. We must wake up and unite. Siem has taken our land and water and controlled up to this day. We must get our land back to Cambodia.
Million native Khmers in Thailand hold a high position in Thai government. All walk of lives of native Khmers in Thailand must realize that Thai army is your enemy. Don’t support Abhisit, Yellow shirt group and Thai army. They are the aggressors against our troops, brothers and sisters along border.
BP
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