The Brunei Times
PHNOM PENH
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned neighbouring Thailand that it would face fighting if its troops again crossed their disputed border.
The premier made the remarks a week after Cambodian officials said some 100 Thai troops briefly entered contested territory near an ancient temple where a deadly gun battle broke out last year.
"I tell you first, if you enter (Cambodian territory) again, we will fight. The troops at the border have already received the order," Hun Sen said at a ceremony to open a road named after him in the seaside resort of Sihanoukville.
"I am the leader of Cambodia who was elected by the will of the people, not by robbing power," he added, in an apparent reference to Thailand's current political instability.
Hun Sen also told his audience that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will visit Cambodia on April 18, but blasted the Thai foreign minister Kasit Piromya for allegedly insulting him. "He insults me - he has called me a gangster," he said of the foreign minister. AFP
PHNOM PENH
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned neighbouring Thailand that it would face fighting if its troops again crossed their disputed border.
The premier made the remarks a week after Cambodian officials said some 100 Thai troops briefly entered contested territory near an ancient temple where a deadly gun battle broke out last year.
"I tell you first, if you enter (Cambodian territory) again, we will fight. The troops at the border have already received the order," Hun Sen said at a ceremony to open a road named after him in the seaside resort of Sihanoukville.
"I am the leader of Cambodia who was elected by the will of the people, not by robbing power," he added, in an apparent reference to Thailand's current political instability.
Hun Sen also told his audience that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will visit Cambodia on April 18, but blasted the Thai foreign minister Kasit Piromya for allegedly insulting him. "He insults me - he has called me a gangster," he said of the foreign minister. AFP
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