The Bangkok Post
Compiled by BangkokPost.com from Thai News Agency, wire reports
Quebec - World Heritage Committee chairman Pongpol Adireksarn says more than half the members have already decided to vote to approve Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site.
Compiled by BangkokPost.com from Thai News Agency, wire reports
Quebec - World Heritage Committee chairman Pongpol Adireksarn says more than half the members have already decided to vote to approve Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site.
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Attempts by Cambodia to list the controversial Preah Vihear temple, as a World Heritage Site during the current United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) annual session held in Canada's Quebec City, are expected to bear fruit.
Thailand's World Heritage Committee chairman Pongpol Adireksarn, said from the Unesco session at Quebec City that more than half of the 21 World Heritage Committee members had told him informally that they favored the Cambodian government's registration of the ancient temple as a World Heritage Site.
The delegates told Mr Pongpol they credited Cambodia because it had "untiringly pursued the issue on a constant basis."
He quoted committee members as telling him that the concerned Phnom Penh government had also invited them to visit the temple, unlike Thailand whose "policy was uncertain" and whose government changed frequently, the report said.
The temple issue is expected to be conferred by the World Heritage Committee on Sunday night, Thailand time.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a non-governmental organisation, had distributed reports to the committee, saying that the listing of the temple alone as a World Heritage site would pose no problem for the consideration, said Pongpol.
But the ICOMOS recommended that both Cambodia and Thailand should jointly propose that the surrounding area to the temple should also be included as the World Heritage site.
Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama, attending the session as an observer, is expected to oppose the listing, and argue for delay. He will carry out the order of the Administrative Court's temporary injunction against the June 17 cabinet approval of the joint communique he signed with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An.
Noppadon said in Quebec that he would prepare a letter and lobby the Committee to delay the listing of the temple.
Attempts by Cambodia to list the controversial Preah Vihear temple, as a World Heritage Site during the current United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) annual session held in Canada's Quebec City, are expected to bear fruit.
Thailand's World Heritage Committee chairman Pongpol Adireksarn, said from the Unesco session at Quebec City that more than half of the 21 World Heritage Committee members had told him informally that they favored the Cambodian government's registration of the ancient temple as a World Heritage Site.
The delegates told Mr Pongpol they credited Cambodia because it had "untiringly pursued the issue on a constant basis."
He quoted committee members as telling him that the concerned Phnom Penh government had also invited them to visit the temple, unlike Thailand whose "policy was uncertain" and whose government changed frequently, the report said.
The temple issue is expected to be conferred by the World Heritage Committee on Sunday night, Thailand time.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a non-governmental organisation, had distributed reports to the committee, saying that the listing of the temple alone as a World Heritage site would pose no problem for the consideration, said Pongpol.
But the ICOMOS recommended that both Cambodia and Thailand should jointly propose that the surrounding area to the temple should also be included as the World Heritage site.
Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama, attending the session as an observer, is expected to oppose the listing, and argue for delay. He will carry out the order of the Administrative Court's temporary injunction against the June 17 cabinet approval of the joint communique he signed with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An.
Noppadon said in Quebec that he would prepare a letter and lobby the Committee to delay the listing of the temple.
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