13/07/2011
Bangkok Post
A WikiLeaks cable has quoted Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen as saying his country has no overlapping land areas with Thailand.
In the 95PHNOMPENH152 cable, issued by the US embassy in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen is quoted as saying the only overlapping territory between the two countries is "in the sea", and that it should be divvied up in a grid pattern.
The cable described a meeting between Hun Sen and a group of US corporate leaders led by US-Asean Business Council president Matt Daley on May 1-3, 2008.
Hun Sen's comment was in response to Mr Daley's message that then-Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama did not oppose the inscription of Preah Vihear as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, but wanted Thailand and Cambodia to adopt a joint management plan for an "overlapping claims area".
Hun Sen was also quoted as saying that he wanted the overlapping claims area in the Gulf of Thailand to be considered separately from the Preah Vihear question - "an approach that Thailand accepted years ago", he said.
The Cambodian premier was also quoted as saying Thailand wanted to divide the maritime overlapping claim area into strips running north to south with both countries sharing percentages of petroleum revenues in each strip.
In the cable, Hun Sen suggested instead the area be divided into a checkerboard pattern with each country having sole control of its assigned blocks.
In its comment, the embassy noted that despite the Thai and Cambodian statements, the inscription of the Preah Vihear temple was linked to resolving the maritime claims dispute, "at least in the minds of senior Thai and Cambodian government leaders".
Meanwhile, Pheu Thai has vowed to help Thai Patriots Network coordinator Veera Somkwamkid and his secretary Ratree Pipattanapaiboon secure their release from jail in Phnom Penh, where they are being held on spying charges.
Torpong Chaiyasarn, a Pheu Thai party-list MP-elect who is among those regarded as being on the shortlist for deputy foreign minister, said once Pheu Thai becomes the ruling party, the government would try to assist Veera and Ratree as well as other Thais facing similar charges in Cambodia.
Veera and Ratree were jailed for illegally entering Cambodia, trespassing into a restricted military area without permission and espionage.
"This case will not be among the government's urgent policies, but it will be one of the tasks that the government must address" Mr Torpong said.
"We must make sure the public understands our and Cambodia's approaches. More importantly, we must respect the ruling of the Cambodian court as well."
He said apart from Veera and Ratree, there were other Thais convicted of similar charges, although the public has never been informed of their cases.
Pheu Thai's plan to deal with the Thai-Cambodian border row includes enforcing the decree that Cambodians living in the disputed area must move out in accordance with the existing memorandum of understanding.
3 comments:
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 30,000 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 30,000km2 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 30,000 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 30,000 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, President Ms. Rattana Keo,
Hun Sen should give his daughter to thailand to fuck so he can do business. Hun is big time selling the country.
AH HUN XEN IS AH KHBOT JEAT
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