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| Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (C) with counterparts Hor NamHong (L) of Cambodia and Kasit Piromya (R) of Thailand in Jakarta, Feb. 22, 2011. (AFP PHOTO / RUDI / MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS) |
Radio Free Asia
Thailand and Cambodia agree to allow an ASEAN team observe adherence to a ceasefire agreement.
Thailand and Cambodia will allow civilian and unarmed Indonesian military observers to be stationed along their common border in order to diffuse tensions following a bloody battle over a disputed area, according to officials.
An agreement that will see as many as 40 Indonesian observers to the area was agreed to by the two neighboring nations and brokered by the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during an emergency meeting in Jakarta.
Indonesia currently holds the rotating chair of ASEAN, which also comprises Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen welcomed the decision, calling it a temporary stop-gap measure and saying that the conflict would require further mediation through the International Court of Justice.
“This [action] is for reducing tension while waiting for a final solution on the border conflict,” he said.
“And this is a difficult solution because one party uses a map that was recognized by the International Court at The Hague, a map that was factually written according to the verdict of the court, while the other party uses a map that was [created] unilaterally.”
Tentative ceasefire
The site was awarded to Cambodia by the World Court nearly 50 years ago, but ownership of the surrounding 4.6-square-kilometers (1.8-square-miles) of land was never fully addressed.
At least eight people have died and thousands have been displaced in the border conflict which erupted almost a month ago near Preah Vihear temple despite a tentative ceasefire agreement agreed to on Feb. 5. The border has been quiet in recent days, but troops remain cautious.
Clashes had not led to a fatality since January 2010, when a Thai soldier was shot dead following a skirmish in the area.
To maintain the ceasefire, two Indonesian teams of 20 will be stationed with the militaries of both nations on either side of the border and will report any violations to ASEAN and the UN Security Council.
Other details of the deployment, including when the observers would arrive and where they would be embedded along the border, were not immediately available.
The UN Security Council had indicated its support for the ASEAN-led effort at reconciliation and called for a permanent ceasefire.
Cambodia had long called for third-party mediation in the dispute, but Thailand opposed the idea in favor of a bilateral solution. The agreement to accept the observers suggests Thailand will allow Indonesia as ASEAN chair to work towards enforcing the truce.
‘Waging peace’
ASEAN rarely intervenes in the internal affairs of its member states. The decision to send the 40 Indonesians marks the first time the body has sent observers to a dispute site since 2005, when it helped to end hostilities between rebels and government troops in western Indonesia.
AFP quoted Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa as calling the move a "unique arrangement" for the Southeast Asian bloc.
He added that both Thailand and Cambodia had requested "engagement" from Indonesia in future negotiations between the two nations, which will take place in Jakarta on an unspecified date.
"I would like to make it absolutely clear that ... the option of conflict, the option of use of force, is not meant to be on the table … We are ‘waging peace’ so that no more guns and artilleries make a sound in our region."
"This outcome is very important, not just on conflict resolution between Thailand and Cambodia but in capacity building by ASEAN," he said.
The border conflict has lent leverage to Thailand’s yellow shirt movement, which has been calling on Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to take a tougher stance on relations with Cambodia.
It also followed a verdict from a Cambodian court which sentenced two Thai nationalists to jail terms of six and eight years for trespassing and spying in the border region.
Reported by RFA’s Khmer service. Translated by Sum Sok Ry. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
18 comments:
Hot 5 Hong should just spit on the face of Kashit piromya.
I don't believe civilian and unarmed Indonesian military
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Can anyone in Cambodia access KI Media. In England there is no problem accessing it from the Roal Cambodian Embaasy, UK.
Cheers folk.
The indom fm fucks Thai as his wife
Dont trus indon fm. He talks to Thai first before speaking with camb
INDONESIA FOREIGN MINISTER SHOULD SET CONDITION THAT HUN SEN MUST RESPECTED HUMAN RIGHT AND INTERNATIONAL'S LAW, MUST SPEAK OF NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, BECAUSE SINCE HUN SEN CAME IN TO POWER, I HAVE'T HEARD HUN SEN TELL THE TRUTH YET. HE SHOULD ALSO STOP ATTACKING U.N SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, AND MUST EXCEPT THEIR ADVICE AND CARRY THEIR REQUEST TO REFORM CAMBODIA JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT IS FAR BELOW INTERNATIONAL STANDARD.
Does ASEAN help or hurt Cambodia?
It's increasingly clear that ASEAN is taking Cambodia hostage. Cambodia border is not just along the Thai border...I have not seen ASEAN doing anything in resolving the Vietcong influx in cambodia and the CAmbodia border issues along the Vietnamese border.
is there reason other than the writer of the article is biased and ingorant of cambodia when they kept mentioning that the adjacent land to the khmer temple is never been addressed! why people like this writer chose to ignore the 1907 map? what made him/her so sure that the 4.6 sq. km land never been addressed? did they see the 1907 map? france offered any country who wanted to help settle this issue a copy of the 1907 map! didn't anybody beside cambodia and france see the 1907 map? i don't quite understand why people chose to ignore the internationally recognized map! they have something against cambodia or something? ask them directly to see if they really know anything about cambodia and where they attained their information, etc!
the UN body and mr. marty chairman of asean should tell siem to stop using cambodia's preah vihear temple to whip up their internal political bickering and to respect the international treaty of 1907!
people aren't stupid, really; we know siem pad thugs is using cambodia's preah vihear, etc to make the world think their country is all fine and trouble-free. in reality, everybody in the body who kept up with current events knew that siem pad thugs are using cambodia as a scapegoat for their political problem among themselves, really! that aren't right, to say the least, you know!
siem act so immature compare to cambodia and what we've been through in the past several decades and so on!
Why do Kos Trol, sea and lands proximately over 10 000 km2 have been lost to Vietnam by who treaty? Why don’t Cambodia goverment transparencies explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 and what's about over 10 000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Kos Trol, Sea and lands over 10 000km2 have been lost to Vietnam by who treaty at 1979 to 1985 treaty! Treaty! Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protect a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group rather in the real name of protecting Khmer nation?
Cambodian army at front line suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition, their families have no health care help, no securities after they die but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning with young girls message, have super health care from oversea medical treatment, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make Cambodian people suffer everyday as Cambodian people know already.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that result lost over 10 000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why don't they transparency inform all Cambodian and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't include Kos Trol (Kos Trol size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapoor with heap of great natural resources) in education system in Cambodia.
Look at Hun Sen families, relatives; friends are billionaires, millionaires where do they get the money from if we all just get out of war with empty hands? Hun Sen always say in his speech Cambodia just get up from war, just get up from Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% innocent Cambodian people are so poor struggling with living every day.
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
can ratana keo write something else instead of keep pasting the same article EVERYWHERE
IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT ASIAN SHOULD CHANGE THEIR STUPID AND DEADLY POLICY THAT ASIAN MEMBER SHOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH ANOTHER MEMBER, WE'LL IT JUST LIKE CLOSE YOUR EYE AND STAND NEXT TO THE CROCODILE.
THEY KNOW THAT THEIR NEW MEMBERS SUCH AS (CAMBODIA,LOAS,BURMA,VIET) ARE ALL COMMUNIST OR DICTATORS.
WHILE VIET ENCROACHED AND EXPAND THEIR BORDER TO CAMBODIA AND LOAS THEY CLOSED THEIR EYE, TURN AWAY AND PRETEND THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENED. THEY CAN JUST PRETEND THAT VIET IS NOT A COMMUNIST, THEY PRETEND THAT VIET IS NOT ENCHROACHED IN CAMBODIA AND LOAS.
NOW THAT THERE IS A BORDER ROW BETWEEN THAI AND CAMBODIA. THERE'S A REPORT THAT HANOI'S TROOP WAS SENT TO PREH VIHEAR TO FIGHT AMONG CAMBODIA AGAINST THAIS, AGAIN THEY PRETEND THAT IT IS A KHMER/THAI ROW. FORGETTING ABOUT THE COMMUNIST IS SPREADING!
FORGET ABOUT ONE MEMBER (VIET)DOMINATE OVER TWO NATIONS (CAMBODIA & LOAS).
MAYBE ONE DAY VIETCONG COMPLETELY TAKE OVER THAI, THAN THEY CAN STILL STICK TO THEIR DEADLY NON INTERFERE WITH MEMBER POLICY!
Hor Num Hong looks Weak in the picture, the way he shook hand with Kashit PooPya! You must show strenght!!
He's old and weak...what you expect!
Weak is an understatement. Whore 5Hong is retarded. Did you listen to his speech at the UN last year? So pathetic...
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KHmerization hates people who talk about Kos Trol, sea and lands about 10 000km2 to Vietnam. Khmerization try to silence Ms. Rattana Keo about Kos TRol, sea and land 10 000km2. Khmerization tries to play blame game to Ms. Rattana Keo. Khmerization is killing every Cambodian who talks about Kos Trol. Ms. Rattana Keo keeps talking about Kos Trol, sea and lands over 10 000km2 to Vietnam because No Khmer men dare to speak out about this out loud. They are get into politic and news to serve their own interest in money in every generation of Khmer. Khmerization tries to silence one defend less woman that remind Khmers about Kos Trol, sea and lands over 10 000km2 have been lost to Vietnam injustice to all Cambodian people. Shame on khmerization News! Khmerization only serves their interest in political gain.
All real patriot Khmers die for nothing to serve the optician in every generation. Politian get rich and Khmer people keep suffer every day.
All Cambodian readers beware, I used to be a very big fan that inspired by KI and Khmerization but today I can see their real face and political gain purpose. Beware all Cambodian people! Politian gets rich but Khmer people like you and me are getting suffered every day.
Stupid oldfart can't even speak clearly? What a shrink dick he is..!
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