Showing posts with label Border delineation effort agreement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Border delineation effort agreement. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Thailand, Cambodia to draw border [... only near Preah Vihear temple]

August 20, 2008
ABC Radio Australia

Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to intensify efforts to mark the border around a disputed temple.

At the weekend, up to 1,000 Cambodian and Thai troops pulled back from confronting each other on a small patch of disputed land near Cambodia's 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.

Twenty troops from both sides are stationed at a small pagoda in the contentious border area, while 40 Cambodian and Thai solders remain nearby.

After a day of talks the ministers announced a border committee will meet in October to draw a boundary around the temple.

Military officials will meet later this month to discuss a further pullback of troops.

The two countries say they will solve the problem peacefully, in friendship and under the law.