Jakarta Saturday, 07 May 2011
"I can report to all of you that the two sides have agreed to the terms of reference for the observer team, the Indonesian observer team that we have been discussing for several weeks now."
Ahead of a regional summit, Indonesia's foreign minister has said Thailand and Cambodia agreed to allow Indonesian monitors to go to the border between the two countries to help prevent further military clashes.
In his role as the chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa on Friday said there has been a breakthrough in ASEAN's efforts to mediate an end to the Thai-Cambodia border conflict.
"I can report to all of you that the two sides have agreed to the terms of reference for the observer team, the Indonesian observer team that we have been discussing for several weeks now," said Natalegawa. "That is a done thing in the sense that the negotiations have been concluded. Cambodia has formally acceded or formally agreed to the terms of reference. Thailand has also agreed to it but they are yet to fully conclude the formal exchange of documents."
The terms of reference include how many Indonesian observers will be dispatched and the specific areas along the border where they will operate.
Since February, more than 20 people have died in repeated clashes between the two ASEAN members along their disputed border. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes on both sides of the border.
The heart of the disagreement is a 900-year-old Hindu Khmer temple known as Preah Vihear in Cambodia and Prah Viharn in Thailand. The temple sits in Cambodia, but Thailand claims adjacent land that includes a key access route to the complex. The countries have fought sporadically over the border since 2008.
Natalegawa met with foreign ministers of the other ASEAN nations Friday. On Saturday, ASEAN national leaders begin a two-day summit in Jakarta.
The Indonesian foreign minister says talks Friday included the question of Burma's request to take over the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014. Human Rights Watch objects to the idea of Burma (also called Myanmar) leading the association, given it says, the country's long record of human rights abuses and its lack of democratic development.
While the ASEAN heads of states will decide if Burma's bid is accepted, Natalegawa said some concerns were expressed at the ministerial level.
"The state of readiness of Myanmar to chair ASEAN in 2014, which is quite a critical year for ASEAN, on the eve of its community in 2015, the state of readiness extends beyond practical arrangements readiness but also other dimensions that we need to ascertain ourselves," added Natalegawa.
Burma passed up its chance to take the rotating chairmanship in 2005, after the United States and European Union threatened to boycott ASEAN events if Burma's government was at the helm.
Natalegawa says the foreign ministers also addressed the issue of the South China Sea where China and some ASEAN countries have competing claims to small islands and areas believed to be rich in oil. He says ASEAN and China are continuing to work together to develop a declaration of conduct to help resolve disputes.
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Address Vietcong border issues with all its neighbors
Nations are about to hang themselves by the ropes of; "Freedom From God".
Another words; nations has been in the wrong to walk away from the True and Living God and chose demon gods of their own choice for worship.
Can any good thing come from demon worship?
To be fair to all Khmer people, Hor Namhong, being a foreign minister representing Cambodia, must raise all issues concerning the loss of Khmer land, not just some parts that’s been lost to Thailand but all parts that are being quietly swallowed by Yuons right now too. If he mentions only the conflicts between Khmers and Thais and fails to mention about the Yuons taking our farmers’land, then he does not represents Khmer people in
general. This time is the best time for him to raise the issue about Yuons, because those Asian leaders do not know the fact that Yuon is
engulfing Khmer land due to
the hidden reason that Khmer
government don’t make a fuss of it. Or
even if they know, they just don’t care because it’s not their problems. I believe my comment will infuriate some folks in here. Anyone who’s vexed by my comment, please give me
your clear and precise patriotic reasons why I should not raise
the issue about Yuons because we are fighting against Thais, and not Yuons. Don’t tell me that we can’t afford to fight both enemies at once; that’s just bullshit!
The reason why Hun Sen and his profit-sharing comrades have been silent about this life-and death issue for Khmer people is that they clearly prove themselves that they are undoubtedly the Yuons’lackeys who will take no responsibility for the loss of Khmer land in the future, just as N. Sihanouk never admit his reckless and destructive mistakes that killed millions of the innocent Khmers. As Khmers, we must care about all sides of our land, and we are entitled to our opinions.
If the God of the Universe, possessor of heaven and earth wants to give Cambodia to be part of greater Vietnam and Thailand; who is able to resist his plan?
Time is running out for the Age of human to get his nation in order when the issue will be decided by God, possessor of heaven & earth. For he is sovereign over all nations, though nations has forgotten him in general.
the loss of Khmer land to Thailand or Vietnam is the reckless acts of the dumb Khmer leaders, God has nothing to do with this issue.
Stop mention about your fucking god theese no god in this fucking world. Yourself is the fucking god idiots did you ever seen the fucking god tell me motherfuckers. if you never fucking see it don't keep brag about your fucking god all the time.
The God of Israel is Mighty, the God of Israel knows no defeat. Pot Pol was your own making of your own god. You all are a bunch of heathens and you claim there is no God. Keep knocking yourself in the head until it hurt bad enough to stop being cruel to oneself.
Pot Pol was real in history and world destruction will be real in years to come. Won't you listen so as to avoid the evil fate?
I'm telling you, people are plain stubborn until calamity is upon them.
Keep on cursing if you love spitting on your own face. God is judge over all nations. He asks counsel from no human minds.
Sin-Sickness is a real problem to humanity. Jesus came to set at liberty to those who wants to be free from the bondage of sin.
Why didn't God prevent the WTC massacre then? Stop being intoxicated too much in the invisible spirit.
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