Five-hour meeting fails to reach conclusion
26/03/2011
Mongkol Bangprapa
Bangkok Post
Parliament has postponed its deliberation of the minutes from the Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission meetings until this coming Tuesday, after a five-hour debate yesterday failed to reach any conclusion.
The government has asked parliament to endorse three documents from previous JBC meetings between Thailand and Cambodia.
Section 190 of the constitution requires that any crucial binding international treaty must be endorsed by parliament.
The government asked parliament to back the minutes in order to pave the way for further demarcation talks between the two countries.
A joint sitting of the parliament deliberated the three minutes yesterday.
It could not convene in the morning as planned as it lacked a quorum.
Parliament reconvened in the afternoon. But after debating for five hours, with no conclusion reached, it decided to postpone the matter until Tuesday.
Before the meeting was adjourned, Rosana Tositrakul, a Bangkok senator, questioned why the government seemed to be in such a rush to seek endorsement of the minutes.
She suggested it leave the issue to the next government.
She also expressed her concern that parliament's endorsement of the three minutes might prompt Thailand to lose part of its territory to Cambodia.
"If our voting today leads to the loss of our territory in the future, how could we explain it to our children?
"The House is about to be dissolved and a general election called. Why don't we let the next government take care of this issue. "The government should withdraw this motion and allow more time for the study of it," said Ms Rosana.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told parliament that endorsement of the three JBC minutes would not cause Thailand to lose any territory to Cambodia.
Mr Abhisit denied that the government had sought endorsement of the JBC minutes in any kind of hurry. He said they were drafted back in 2008 and 2009. The government did not seek endorsement of the minutes right after the meetings.
On suggestions that the matter be left for the next government, Mr Abhisit said Cambodia has tried to turn Thai-Cambodian bilateral disputes into international disputes, which was wrong.
Cambodia had also tried to gain an edge over Thailand at World Heritage Committee meetings about the Preah Vihear temple _ the disputed temple on the border between the two nations _ but its efforts had not succeeded.
The international community recognised bilateral mechanisms between the two countries for solving disputes _ memorandums of understanding, and the JBC, he said.
"If we did not do anything and allowed Cambodia to claim that Thailand has not sincerely tried to hold talks through bilateral mechanisms, could you guarantee that in the future international organisations would not intervene in disputes between Thailand and Cambodia?" Mr Abhisit said.
The yellow shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday declined to move its rally to parliament to oppose parliament's deliberation of the minutes as it had previously threatened, claiming its campaign from the Makkhawan Bridge, where it gathers normally, has already yielded good results.
PAD spokesman Parnthep Pourpongpan said the movement had earlier submitted a letter to parliamentarians to express opposition to any approval of the JBC documents. Some MPs who disagreed with the documents opted not to attend parliament's meeting.
9 comments:
"If our voting today leads to the loss of our territory in the future, how could we explain it to our children?
what is the bullshit thief have anything to loose everything thief gain is from stealing you got no land to loose what you don't want to loose your label as thief and you want to carry the name of the thief for ever.
what territory thai loss , thai drawn the map to steal land from cambodia when it not succeed they they say loss territory you would say you're not as good thief as your forefather.
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and 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 on the Thai border 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?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The 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 protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
(Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo)
again thai yellow shirt pretend to khmer try stir up khmer with vietnam
re-direct attention somewhere else if there is issue we deal it latter on our enemy right in front of us this cheap tactic won't work with khmer in the 21 century.
4:01 PM is truely Vietcong
we standing talking because of vietcong deliberated us not thai when khmer rouge killed khmer there is no heros to fight the khmer rouge when the country in peace a lot of heros if you want to be a hero joint the army and fight the thai in the frontline.
who help us to get rid of khmer rouge . when country is in peace khmer want to fight each other like khmer rouge killed khmer look at the thai cambodia border thai soldiers shot and killed our people why don't you joint the army and fight the thai may be you become a hero and you can get rid of hun sen later on only the khmer rouge complain about vietnam i think some of you is khmer rouge you not happy because vietnam toppled your regimes.
When Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975,the Democratic Kampuchea was
under the Communist bloc such as China,North Korea,Cuba,Vietnam,and other communist countries,they did
not care what happened in Cambodia;
even the free world did not keep their eyes on Democratic Kampuchea.
What Khmer people saw were Chinese communist trucks loading tons and tons and tons of rice sacks along the High ways in Cambodia.
Did China care about Pol Pot regime
killing Khmer people? They did not.
Were Khmer Rouge Khmer heroes?They
were Khmer killer heroes.
khmer rouge regimes nobody care about us few of my friend escaped to thailand and was thai authority sent back and executed by the khmer rouge quarter of our population is gone starving and disease that kill us i have been arrested twice for minor thief(i got tortured for 2 months before they release me) i almost die i only have skin wrap around my bones.
the young generation of cambodia doesn't have any clues about pol pot the reality is far worse than people telling you it is beyond the explanation .
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