PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) – Cambodian and Thai information officials met here on Monday to strengthen and expand cooperation on information and broadcasting between the two neighboring countries despite ongoing bitter border row.
Ladavan Bua-aim, deputy director general of the public relations department at the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand, said that despite the border dispute, Cambodia and Thailand still have enjoyed close cooperation at all levels in terms of economic and social development.
"As ASEAN members, I am confident that our two countries are working together to realize an ASEAN community by 2015, and we will move even closer together," he said in the fourth meeting of Cambodian and Thai information officials.
Cambodia and Thailand signed the Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) on the cooperation in the field of information and broadcasting in February 2006.
"Although the MoU has not produced a very high result, but it helps foster better understanding and relations between the peoples of the two countries," said Thach Phan, a secretary of state for Cambodian ministry of information.
Cambodia and Thailand have border conflict just a week after Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was enlisted as a World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008.
Since then, both sides have built up military forces along the border and periodic clashes have happened, resulted in the deaths of troops and civilians on both sides.
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perhaps is just ahbullshit and his siem administration is holding camobdia's preah vihear as hostage, because some sector of siem gov't still think they have good relations with cambodia from reading this article! i don't know, but cambodia cannot trust siem until they show us that they mean it and sincere about it, etc, etc! only time will tell, really! in the mean time, of couse, cambodia will push it all the way in the court to settle this so-called border demarcation! again, cambodia cannot agree to siem unilateral map, period! only internationally agreed map will be accepted by cambodia, really! so, stop taking advantage of cambodia's past internal strife and respect the law, ok! 1907 map haven't changed a bit, only siem's unilateral map changed, ok! if siem keep on ignore the 1907 international, then they will always have problem with cambodia because we know siem took advantage of cambodia during our internal strife period. i mean, it's not like the borderlines haven't existed already, you know! just because it was being neglected by cambodia due to our preoccupation with internal strife, doesn't give siem thugs the rights to stake claim and steal or violated from the law, you know! can we all see siem's true color now? so, siem has a lot of work to do to gain our trust and confidence, really! they have to show it, not just by words, but by writing as well, ok! and by respecting the existing law, of course!
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