BANGKOK, Aug 3 (MCOT online news) - The Thai Cabinet on Tuesday appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Suwit Khunkitti to chair a committee to oversee the Preah Vihear temple dispute and to examine Cambodia's development-management plan for the ancient temple, according to a government spokesman.
Mr Suwit led the Thai delegation to the just ending UNESCO World Heritage Commission (WHC) meeting in Brazil, said acting spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn. The minister is charged with responsibility to gather information on Cambodia's development management plan for the temple, which was granted world heritage status in 2008.
The committee will also seek evidence to support Thailand's claim to the contested 4.6 sq km area around Preah Vihear temple, he said.
The committee will comprise representatives from concerned agencies including the ministries of foreign affairs and defence.
Dr Panithan said the Cabinet also acknowledged a report on the WHC meeting given by Mr Suwit and agreed that Thailand would propose to host the WHC annual meeting in 2012.
He also said Mr Suwit assured the cabinet that he had not signed any document at the WHC meeting that could bind the government, but only signed his name to acknowledge the document proposed by Cambodia.
The heritage agency on Thursday postponed reviewing the Cambodian plan until next year when it meets in Bahrain.
Mr Suwit said earlier that the officials are now preparing to look through documents of the Cambodian management plan which is expected to be sent to them in September, to see whether it includes the disputed 4.6 sq km disputed zone.
In a related development, Second Army Area commander Lt-Gen Veevalit Chornsamrit on Tuesday conceded that some Cambodians have set up stalls in the contested area near the temple, but the army has no authority to push them back to Cambodian territory.
The general commented following reports on the presence of Cambodian vendors at the Thai-Cambodian border market in Kantararak district of Thailand's Si Sa Ket province.
Gen Veevalit said that the Thai government is duty-bound to hold talks under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by both countries in 2000 and the army's duty is to maintain order along the borders.
He said under the 2000 MoU with Cambodia on land boundary demarcation, both sides agree not to carry out any work resulting in changes of environment of the frontier zone, pending the survey and demarcation of the common land boundary.
As for the road to Preah Vihear built by Cambodia, Gen Veevalit said that it was an old road and Cambodia had improved and vehicles could take the route to reach the temple.
He added the Thai army has already submitted complaint letters to the neighbouring country several times.
Preah Vihear was awarded to Cambodia by the International Court of Justice in 1962. UNESCO named the temple a World Heritage site in 2008, after Cambodia applied for the status while the dispute over the 4.6 sq km contested zone between the two countries remains unsolved.
Under the terms of the listing, Cambodia is required to submit a management plan for WHC approval, but Thailand insisted that the matter should not be discussed unless the two neighbours first resolve their dispute over the zone adjacent to the temple.
Mr Suwit led the Thai delegation to the just ending UNESCO World Heritage Commission (WHC) meeting in Brazil, said acting spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn. The minister is charged with responsibility to gather information on Cambodia's development management plan for the temple, which was granted world heritage status in 2008.
The committee will also seek evidence to support Thailand's claim to the contested 4.6 sq km area around Preah Vihear temple, he said.
The committee will comprise representatives from concerned agencies including the ministries of foreign affairs and defence.
Dr Panithan said the Cabinet also acknowledged a report on the WHC meeting given by Mr Suwit and agreed that Thailand would propose to host the WHC annual meeting in 2012.
He also said Mr Suwit assured the cabinet that he had not signed any document at the WHC meeting that could bind the government, but only signed his name to acknowledge the document proposed by Cambodia.
The heritage agency on Thursday postponed reviewing the Cambodian plan until next year when it meets in Bahrain.
Mr Suwit said earlier that the officials are now preparing to look through documents of the Cambodian management plan which is expected to be sent to them in September, to see whether it includes the disputed 4.6 sq km disputed zone.
In a related development, Second Army Area commander Lt-Gen Veevalit Chornsamrit on Tuesday conceded that some Cambodians have set up stalls in the contested area near the temple, but the army has no authority to push them back to Cambodian territory.
The general commented following reports on the presence of Cambodian vendors at the Thai-Cambodian border market in Kantararak district of Thailand's Si Sa Ket province.
Gen Veevalit said that the Thai government is duty-bound to hold talks under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by both countries in 2000 and the army's duty is to maintain order along the borders.
He said under the 2000 MoU with Cambodia on land boundary demarcation, both sides agree not to carry out any work resulting in changes of environment of the frontier zone, pending the survey and demarcation of the common land boundary.
As for the road to Preah Vihear built by Cambodia, Gen Veevalit said that it was an old road and Cambodia had improved and vehicles could take the route to reach the temple.
He added the Thai army has already submitted complaint letters to the neighbouring country several times.
Preah Vihear was awarded to Cambodia by the International Court of Justice in 1962. UNESCO named the temple a World Heritage site in 2008, after Cambodia applied for the status while the dispute over the 4.6 sq km contested zone between the two countries remains unsolved.
Under the terms of the listing, Cambodia is required to submit a management plan for WHC approval, but Thailand insisted that the matter should not be discussed unless the two neighbours first resolve their dispute over the zone adjacent to the temple.
19 comments:
The eveidence is the map that Thailand unilaterally created after the 1962 Internal Court of Justice decision that Preah Vihear belonged to Cambodia, with a clear reference to the border as submitted during the litigation.
Was it because of that unilaterally created map that helped Thailand claim many areas of Cambodian territories including the ones at the Gulf?
Ah thai always dreaming of something that was not there and come up with some kind of shits.
They already claimed, now they are looking for evidents.
Should it not be the other way around?
Are we going to get evidents to get old provinces back from thailand
Yes, Khmer must get the proofs and evidences from FRENCH also to reclaim our provinces back too.
Hoooray!! French!!
We want Khmer Krom and all provinces back from Thailand.
Khmer Prom Den,
The evidence is 5 million Khmer people still live in Thailand.
Cambodia delegation or politician should, counter, also raise the historical fact that the Bangkok is recently granted to Thailand by french, and not to recognized the existent of Thailand today. Actually Thai has no land. We have to insist on the problem of recent Thailand that historically belong to Cambodia like Thailand crazily insist on Preah Vihear.
Cambodia delegation or politician should, counter, also raise the historical fact that the Bangkok is recently granted to Thailand by french, and not to recognized the existent of Thailand today. Actually Thai has no land. We have to insist on the problem of recent Thailand that historically belong to Cambodia like Thailand crazily insist on Preah Vihear.
Cambodia delegation or politician should, counter, also raise the historical fact that the Bangkok is recently granted to Thailand by french, and not to recognized the existent of Thailand today. Actually Thai has no land. We have to insist on the problem of recent Thailand that historically belong to Cambodia like Thailand crazily insist on Preah Vihear.
Cambodia delegation or politician should, counter, also raise the historical fact that the Bangkok is recently granted to Thailand by french, and not to recognized the existent of Thailand today. Actually Thai has no land. We have to insist on the problem of recent Thailand that historically belong to Cambodia like Thailand crazily insist on Preah Vihear.
Cambodian general should be serious rather than eating lunch with Thai. stop making any lunch and be serious. Thai is thief. why eating with thief
Cambodian general should be serious rather than eating lunch with Thai. stop making any lunch and be serious. Thai is thief. why eating with thief. why allow them to make trouble
Cambodian general should be serious rather than eating lunch with Thai. stop making any lunch and be serious. Thai is thief. why eating with thief. why allow them to make trouble.
Friends!
Why our neighbours claimed and continue to claim more land from our country?
Because we are weak in many areas of managing the country.
Arguing one another over greedy Thailand does not help, But try to clean up our acts of corruption so that our country has opportunity to grow stronger econmically and subsequently become smarter when citizens are not deprived from their civil rights.
You can keep drinking fermented palm juice or hennessy until you die with riddled diseases still does not help with your discussion.
by illegally trying to claim this areas of cambodia's, siem wanted to control the what seemed like the only easiest accessway from cambodia to our preah vihear world heritage site. this way, siem hopes to get to co-manage our preah vihear. of course, we telling that they can only dreaming! isn't that obnoxious of siem pad thugs? i think so! of course siem pad thugs are showing their true thiefy color to cambodia and the world! everybody in cambodia and the world knew about siem pad thugs' illegal intention all along! siem will run out of thug-like intention soon; it's just a matter of time! god bless cambodia.
Why don't we told the U.N. all the land that Siem lives right now is belonging to Khmer Empire. Siem don't have anything they're stolen everything from Khmer name it. Why can we brought it up at the U.N.can we get our provinces that France have gaven to Siem back or what?
having lunch with your enemy is a two edge sword. we can spy and gauge them and they do the same to us. But there is a saying: keep your friends close but keep enemies closer".
Thai think like Monkey and talk like Monkey just like the Thai King Monkey because Thai are Monkey.
the way i see it, siem pad thugs are no more than an extremist group of people who take the concept of democracy way too radical or extreme. mayb they are siem country force of change because when you have their leaders listening to this group, you can see their philosophy behind this group. they are siem's force of change. the problem is anything that they do too extreme or radical is never a good thing, really. the key is to strike a balance in all poltical move because being too extreme has a backfire sooner or later. anyway, that said, siem pad thugs are no more that a distraction from the reality of things siem country and their relationship with neighboring countries. you know being too extreme will always fail because there is a big world out there on this planet. extremist's concept will only work and will work well only if on this planet, there is only siem country exist; but if you know there the world is more than siem, then it's not going to work. isn't that how the stupid KR failed because of their extreme or radical idea that was blinded by the reality of the planet? i think siem pad thugs is heading in the same path or same route as the KR way, and we know how that will end up!
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