Original report from Phnom Penh
20 July 2009
Border committees from Cambodia and Thailand will hold a meeting in Bangkok Tuesday to seek a solution to a long-running border dispute near Preah Vihear temple, defense officials said Monday.
Cambodia’s border committee will leave Tuesday morning, led by Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh, who will meet his Thai counterpart, Prawit Wongsowon.
Both sides have added more troops to their entrenched positions along the northern border in recent weeks, following escalating rhetoric over Preah Vihear temple. Unesco added the temple to its World Heritage listing, under Cambodia, in July 2008, but Thai officials have recently requested it be jointly run.
The 2008 listing sparked demonstrations in Thailand and led to the occupation of a pagoda by Thai troops in a disputed border area near Preah Vihear temple on July 15, 2008. Both sides amassed troops in the days that followed, and neither side has backed down in subsequent months. At least seven soldiers have died in skirmishes over the past year.
“The Cambodia-Thailand general border committee will hold a meeting in Bangkok from 21 to 22 July aimed at strengthening cooperation between Cambodian and Thai soldiers along the border,” Chhum Socheath, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, told VOA Khmer on Monday.
“The meeting is intended to make an effort to reduce the tense situation on the battlefield,” he said. “The meeting, however, will not provide a quick result, but I hope it can reduce this on the battlefield and will also build confidence between the two countries.”
On the agenda are means to reduce the numbers of soldiers deployed on the border and to begin the installation of border demarcation, he said.
Border cooperation is important to prevent cross-border terrorism and crime, such as the trafficking of drugs, weapons, artifacts and people, he said.
Cambodia’s border committee will leave Tuesday morning, led by Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh, who will meet his Thai counterpart, Prawit Wongsowon.
Both sides have added more troops to their entrenched positions along the northern border in recent weeks, following escalating rhetoric over Preah Vihear temple. Unesco added the temple to its World Heritage listing, under Cambodia, in July 2008, but Thai officials have recently requested it be jointly run.
The 2008 listing sparked demonstrations in Thailand and led to the occupation of a pagoda by Thai troops in a disputed border area near Preah Vihear temple on July 15, 2008. Both sides amassed troops in the days that followed, and neither side has backed down in subsequent months. At least seven soldiers have died in skirmishes over the past year.
“The Cambodia-Thailand general border committee will hold a meeting in Bangkok from 21 to 22 July aimed at strengthening cooperation between Cambodian and Thai soldiers along the border,” Chhum Socheath, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, told VOA Khmer on Monday.
“The meeting is intended to make an effort to reduce the tense situation on the battlefield,” he said. “The meeting, however, will not provide a quick result, but I hope it can reduce this on the battlefield and will also build confidence between the two countries.”
On the agenda are means to reduce the numbers of soldiers deployed on the border and to begin the installation of border demarcation, he said.
Border cooperation is important to prevent cross-border terrorism and crime, such as the trafficking of drugs, weapons, artifacts and people, he said.
18 comments:
I am soooo sick and tired to read this fucking shit. I wish Thai-Cambodia and Vietnam will be wiped out from the face of the planet.
Calms down Ahole!
Dude I hate Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I wish them to be wiped out from the planet. They do not belong to this beautiful planet, they belong to hell.
You need have peace in you. I see nothing but hatred. May peace be with you.
530am ,548am , 557am , 617am , Is the same guy talking to him self....thats what it sounds like LOL........................
hows about you wipe your ass after you take a shit fucker..............FUCKING SHIT FACE...................wipe your ass off the plant ..............FUCK THAILAND
we should negotiate with thailand for the return of all of our old khmer provinces back. they stole a lot from cambodia during the dark age. now, cambodia wants our old khmer provinces back! we should show them the map of the khmer empire because they are not helping to preserve our khmer legacy, instead, they are trying to destroy khmer identity, etc... thailand is evil country! cambodia wants our lands returned, the one they stole from us!
Why does Tea Banh have a meeting again and again with the Thieves?
When somebody wants to wipe out Cambodia , wipe out your ass first. Wipe out ah youns and ah thais because they are from China.
Fuck the siems , fuck the youns and fuck every bodies I meet on the khmer road.
Fucken Tea Banhk kanch is up to something again! this is may be a new deal or an agreement with Thai-thieft on something..??? i hope is not 4.6khm of lands...
6:26AM! your stupid guess is completly wrong A-hole!
8:58AM! fuck you too! and fuck your mama asshole!
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
There were useless to negociate
with Thais bandits, our people need
financial support, secure job than wasting time, monies, lifes with the robbers. Take Them to International Court of Justice, get over it.
New Phally
Secretary of State for Ministry of Interior and Adviser for First Vice President National Assembly
tea banh is a viet so he would not be able to negotiate this bullshit border talks. The thais want to drag this border issue as long as they can so they can keep adding more troops to the border. It's time to fight, and thais need to prepare cofin for their loved ones
aye 902am fuck yo ASSHOLE.....LOL you fucking siem
11:33am you are a bullshit secretary of state and a bullshit adviser to your bullshit vice president of national assembly
Ah LOL sucks Ah PPU pencil dick!
Ah lol could kick your fucking ass Fag
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