BANGKOK, July 30 (Bernama) -- Cambodia has reportedly withdrawn some 2,500 troops from an unsettled area bordering Thailand, a move expected to ease tension between the two neighbouring countries, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
Updated reports on Saturday said that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had ordered the troop withdrawal from the contentious border area surrounding the Preah Vihear Temple. Newspapers showed pictures of Cambodian troops and tanks leaving the area.
The withdrawal of the Cambodian troops came almost two weeks after the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered both Thailand and Cambodian to pull out their troops from the unsettled area pending the World Court's concluded decision on a case earlier filed by Phnom Penh, requesting the UN highest court to provide clarification of its 1962 ruling on the Preah Vihear Temple.
However, according to TNA Phnom Penh reportedly acknowledged later that its troop pull-out from the border area was not aimed to comply with the World Court's order, but to lessen military confrontation in the area, where fatal clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops had erupted over the past few years. .
The Cambodian government said that Cambodian troops have remained inside the Preah Vihear Temple.
2 comments:
Is this another goodwill gesture for peace by HUN SEN government toward the new Thai elected government? Just wait and see because the Thai military thugs will be more thuggish and bending on destroying the new Thai elected government credibility by provoking border with Cambodia!
In dealing with Thai military thugs Cambodian military don't need to apply peaceful Buddhist philosophy otherwise they will be killed and stop playing game and eating and drinking with the Thai military thugs!
Cambodia are settling troops along
Thailand border,but not with Lao
and Vietnam because Vietnam,Lao,and
Cambodia are under Vietnam Federation.
Vietnam and Hun Sen are not stupid
to pull out its troops completely
from Thailand border.
Vietnam and Hun Sen are always on
alert.
This is a Hun Sen boss trick.
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