PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia and Thailand pledged on Wednesday to start marking out disputed bits of border next month and withdraw troops in January to avoid a repeat of last month's armed clashes at the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
After three days of negotiations by a joint border committee in the Cambodian resort town of Siem Reap, Thai Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat said "99 percent" of the problems had been resolved.
He did not elaborate other than to say the agreement had to be approved by Thailand's parliament, as required by the constitution.
At a joint press conference broadcast on Cambodian television, Cambodian foreign minister Hor Namhong said the troop withdrawal would make way for joint teams to clear the thousands of landmines that litter much of the jungle-clad border.
"We have decided to plant border pillars in the disputed area first because we are trying not to have a repeat of the conflict," Hor Namhong said.
One Thai and three Cambodian soldiers died in last month's exchange of rifle and rocket fire, which both sides accused the other of starting.
The Hindu temple, which sits on the escarpment that forms the natural border, has been a source of tension for generations.
The International Court of Justice awarded it to Cambodia in 1962, but the ruling did not determine the ownership of 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub next to the ruins, leaving considerable scope for disagreement.
After three days of negotiations by a joint border committee in the Cambodian resort town of Siem Reap, Thai Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat said "99 percent" of the problems had been resolved.
He did not elaborate other than to say the agreement had to be approved by Thailand's parliament, as required by the constitution.
At a joint press conference broadcast on Cambodian television, Cambodian foreign minister Hor Namhong said the troop withdrawal would make way for joint teams to clear the thousands of landmines that litter much of the jungle-clad border.
"We have decided to plant border pillars in the disputed area first because we are trying not to have a repeat of the conflict," Hor Namhong said.
One Thai and three Cambodian soldiers died in last month's exchange of rifle and rocket fire, which both sides accused the other of starting.
The Hindu temple, which sits on the escarpment that forms the natural border, has been a source of tension for generations.
The International Court of Justice awarded it to Cambodia in 1962, but the ruling did not determine the ownership of 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub next to the ruins, leaving considerable scope for disagreement.
Reuter got it all wrong again! This is not a Hindu temple but a Khmer Preah Vihear temple which was built by the Khmer King on Khmer land! This temple has a fucken name why can the fucking Reuter accept that!
ReplyDeleteAny fucking border markers will not be on Khmer land that base on 1904 international map which the Thai leaders help drew the fucking map with the French! The fucking Thai leaders can’t just draw a fucking new map every fucking century to justify what belong to them! Otherwise there will be a fucking war and Cambodia has been through numerous wars before and it won’t be the last and it won’t be the first!
Why there is demarcation pillar in our territory, ah Hor Chhoy mray, we going to send you to ah Ho Chi Minh grave.
ReplyDeleteall this stuff going on is all the bad people from both the thai and cambodian people political games.
ReplyDeleteThe one that loses the most, is the innocent and the poor. Thai, knows that they can't win from this game, but they uses it anyway please their people.
The cpp uses also distract all the attention to the border, instead of dealing with youn, curruptions, jobs, election fraud... etc
I knew this since day one, between Cambodia and Thailand
ReplyDeleteregarding border issue, it never result it just bullshit in and
Bullshit out on the difference day.
This Cambodia government is the must dumb government that
I never have seen.
Hun Sen tackle economy problems, my God maybe in a million years.
ReplyDeleteThe guy doesn't how to read and write, and he has a PhD.
HUN SEN is screwed up about troops withdrawal!
ReplyDeleteWe Cambodian no need to withdraw our troops cause we didn't invade or violate Thailand at all.
Konkhmer,
To 12:39AM
ReplyDeleteI agree! Khmer don't need to withdraw their troop anywhere and beside Khmer didn't invade Thailand either!
Hun Sen and his Vietcong logics are going to nowhere!
My question is why are we on Thailand's agenda? They are on our soil so it only means that they need to abide by our standards not theirs. They are the ones who invaded us not us invading them. Why are they telling us what to do and when they want to do it. We should be telling them what to do and when to do it not the other way around. This is bogus! Our leaders need to set them straight and not let them bully us and tell us when their soldiers are gonna leave our soil. And talk about promise? How many times they promise that they were gonna do something and backfire on us. NEVER TRUST THESE GOONS BECAUSE THEY WILL COME BACK AND STAB YOU IN THE BACK LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN DOING FOR MANY MANY CENTURIES AGO. I HOPE THESE RACIST THAI FUCKERS ALL DIE! THEY ARE THE SCUMS OF THE EARTH IN MY BOOK.
ReplyDeleteHun Sen needs to give them an ultimatum again.
ReplyDeleteGet out or face consequences!!
HUN SEN needs to be strong not just toward unarm Khmer civilian.
Khmer PP,
what rankles most khmer people and even international observers were the fact that thailand don't understand the law of the statue of limitation because without this law the entire world would be fighting each other and it would be a deja vu all over again. you don't just accept the treaty then waited for the right opportunity to violate it again and again. this is a pattern for thailand, and in their own head, they think it is right for them to violate international treaty between nations. common, everybody can see this. people aren't that dump like thailand seem to think they are. if the icj said thailand had ten years of statue of limitation to repeal with new evidence, that was just that, not 45 years or a century later. it's not a rocket scientist to figure this out!
ReplyDeleteWhy do we have to withdraw our troop from our own land. Hun Sen got it wrong again. The 1907 border must be respected.Thai must withdraw their troop, not our troops, shit head.
ReplyDeleteHun Sen need to stop exposing his butts hole to the Yuon and the Siem. It's about time use your dick to fuck them. Be a man, stop being a pussy.
ReplyDeleteAll of you are fucking so stupid. Khmer need to withdraw troops because We never had any troops there before Thai came in. It's a resort place. No tourists want to go to visit there when there are troops with guns all over the place. There were only a few security personnel there before. That's why Khmer withdraw the troops. There is no point of posing hundred of soldiers there when Thai withdraw theirs. Stop running your political bullshit and think with rational.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that if you let share the 4.6KM with the siem the 1907 map is not valid anymore, and the offshore oil they will also claim it.
ReplyDelete4:31 AM
ReplyDeleteI don't think that the Thai will allow Khmer troops to stay while they withdraw their troops. Think about it genius.
4:57 AM
ReplyDeleteOf course, Thai don't but that's just because they don't want to be seen as backing down. That's why both agree to withdraw so no one seems to be the losers. Khmer never want this in the first place anyways. Khmer never wanted to deploy troops because it costs money to rally troops and put them in the frontline. It comes at the cost of losing revenue of the tourists to Preah Vihear on Khmer side. So, withdrawing Khmer troops mean Khmer can get back to getting tourists to come to our Preah Vihear and profit of the tickets and the cost of deploying troops is also gone.
How is that a bad thing for us Khmer? Only stupid blind extreme nationalist idiots would want to the troops to stay there after Thai withdraw. Those idiots want to look tough but doesn't have a grip of the reality and the reasons to withdraw.
Just tell Ah Siam get the hell out of our land period. I don't understand why the Hun's government needs to compromise with Pouk Ah Choe Chlean Pean Tiek Deoy Siam. Say, if I have an intruders at my place and this is how I suppose to tell them " If you get out my place I am willing to move out too. Stupid.
ReplyDeleteThai thieves are being unreasonable. Why would they want Khmer to rename Preah Vihear to Phreah Viharn especially while the temple is not belonging to them? Is this a game being used to bargain and prolong the border dispute talk? Maybe they got nothing better to do. They are full of shit and nonsense. They think that they’re talking to an eight years-old uneducated kid. Maybe the Khmer gov. is stupid? They should mind their own business by pulling their troops out of Khmer soil before more innocent lives are lost.
ReplyDeleteMany of us had been arguing that Preah Vihear is belong to Khmer and Thais claimed as theirs.
ReplyDeleteI am interested to know since all leaders in both countries are not really pure of their countries of origin, does it matter which country get to control the area? Wouldn't it better whoever can prove that they are better leaders and can look after better get to have it. This is for the sake of the innocent people who lives around there on both sides.
Preah Vihear will still remain as Preah Vihear. It's identity will never get lost. It doesn't matter it's on Thai side or Cambodian side.
Abba
To 5:42AM
ReplyDeleteWhat do you know? Why should the Khmer believe the Siam anyway! Since the beginning of the conflict when the Khmer leaders insisted on peaceful bilateral talk with the Siam and the Siam leaders kept sending their troop to occupy Khmer land and now the Siam want to withdraw? Well! The Siam can say and do anything they want because it their fucking problem!
It seems that you are taking thing out of context mother fucker! When I said that Khmer shouldn't be withdrawing their troop because it is Khmer land! This is no different from telling Khmer people to get out off their house and move to somewhere else!
Tell me mother fucker, who would be stupid enough to allow soldiers to carry rocket launchers and AK-47 in front of tourists? Who doesn't understand the concept to creating tourist attraction? It is you who doesn't understand the concept of tourist attraction!
STOP BLAMING KHMER WHO ARE THE VICTIM OF SIAM NAKED AGGRESSION! STOP BLAMING THE KHMER FOR EVERYTHING STUPID MOTHER FUCKER!
All ya listen to this:
ReplyDelete-khmers must do all necessary and possible one can do to fight for the survival of the country. Youns immigrants throughout Cambodia must be expelled from the country. Immigration Law must be implemented! Or this is a lawless country-or with the so government serving as puppet for Youn government. And Corruption Law must be enacted and properly practiced!
And absolutely the idea "the rule of law and everyone under the roof of law" must be applied to all individual. Otherwise your country will knee down and be swallowed by Youn government too soon as "the number of illegal youns have flooded rampantly and with the protection of the khmer government serving Youns'interest".
Spread the word and it's the simplest thing that you can do for your country, at least.