By Agence France-Presse
The UN's highest court is to rule July 18 on a request by Cambodia for Thailand to immediately withdraw its troops from an area around an ancient temple where clashes have taken place, the court said Thursday.
"On Monday 18 July 2011, the International Court of Justice... will deliver its order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Cambodia," the court said in a statement published on its website.
Cambodia in late April launched a bitter legal battle before the ICJ, in which it requested an interpretation of a 1962 court ruling around the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
It also asked the court to approve provisional measures while the court pondered its decision, including an immediate Thai troop withdrawal from the area and a ban on military activity there.
Although Thailand did not dispute Cambodia's ownership of the temple, secured by the 1962 ruling, both Phnom Penh and Bangkok claimed the 4.6-square-kilometre (1.8-square-mile) area surrounding the Khmer complex.
Thailand has asked for the case to be scrapped in its submission, but said in June it would respect the ICJ's ruling.
In February the United Nations appealed for a permanent ceasefire after 10 people were killed in fighting near the Preah Vihear temple.
However fresh clashes broke out in April further west, leaving 18 dead and prompting 85,000 civilians to flee.
Cambodia said though there had been clashes in the past, Thai aggression substantially increased after July 2008, when the UN's cultural body UNESCO listed the temple as a World Heritage site.
5 comments:
To All Khmer and Khmer yuon,
Ah Kvak Hun Sen just shut down INTERNET in Cambodia.
Email and other are jamming and chaos in Cambodia now.
Ah Kvak Mad Dog maybe shut the door and hit the dog??
the icj ruling on its interpretation and clarification will be a decisive rule that will pave the way to properly redemarcate the neglected borderlines based on the international treaty and international law, etc... hopefully after this final ruling, the two countries will only use one map when talking or meeting with each other. the map should be internationally recognized and based on the historic treaty in 1907, not not anything after that because then it will be conflicting and not official! then after the finishing of redemarcation, then cambodia and thailand can really talk about bilateral treaties, bilateral trades, bilateral ties, etc, etc... let's work to put an end to this conflict once and for all, so in the future, there will be no skepticism, no clear definition of the borderlines, etc, etc, if we were to prevent conflict, etc, really!
11:47 AM
How about yourself, are you Khmer or just have a fantasy to be Khmer with a mask of Thai-slave.
Am sure you know the Khmer word "Tmill". Your behavior sound like a Tmill.
1:11AM!
DO YOU REMEMBER ON JAN.7,1979 WHEN
VIET TANKS ROLLED INTO PHNOM PENH?
AT THAT DATE WHERE WERE CHEA SIM, HENG SAMRIN, PENN SOVANN AND HUN SEN? DO YOU REMEMBER THEY WERE BROUGHT IN FROM PREY NOKOR IN TWO VIET ARMY DAKOTA ( C47 ) A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER THE SO CALLED
" RUMDOAH )? MAY BE YOU WERE TOO YOUNG OR TOO BLIND TO SEE AN OPEN AGGRESSION? DO YOU SEE ANY VIETNAMESES IN THE SOCIALIST KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA YET?
At that time,some Khmer Vietminh
leaders Pen sovann,Chea Sim,Heng
Samrin,Hun Sen,and few hundred
Khmer Rouge and Khmer Vietminh,
they all stayed far and far behind
20,000 Vietcong troops.
Pen Sovann asked Vietcong generals
to come first,or with them,but they said,no!no!no!
All of them listened to Vietcong
troops.
Vietcong troops killed Khmer Rouge
soldiers and Khmer people on the
highways and on the rice fields.
They located in all Khmer cities;
they looted,blundered,and took
Khmer properties to Vietnam.
They loaded trucks and trucks
full of Khmer belongings.
They did not come to rescue,but
they came to kill and loot Khmer belongings.
This is dear Hun Sen friend.
I never,never,never forgot,
Vietcong took my belongings.
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