Thursday, 30 December 2010

Hor Namhong-Kasit´s Meetings Produces No Release






via CAAI

Thursday, 30 December 2010 10:42 DAP-NEWS/SOY SOPHEA-SORN SOPHEAK

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Dec 30, 2010- An one-hour meeting between Cambodian and Thai Foreign Ministers on Thursday produced any releases of the arrested Thai.

Cambodian FM Hor Namhong told reporters after the meeting that everything was now in the authority of Cambodia´s court so that the government had to obey the judiciary system, adding that ´We cannot interfere the authority of the court.”

Kasit who accompanied by his Thai Ambassador to Cambodia told reporters that he understood the circumstance of the arrests. “We come here to find the facts of the seven Thai arrested, and we come here to brief our facts [to Cambodian side],” he said. “Now we respect the justice movement of Cambodia but we encourage the Cambodian government to push it faster.”

However, Cambodian FM added that he believed that arrests would cause any damages to the newly-restored bilateral relation.

According a Cambodian court official told DAP News Cambodia that the arrested Thai were sent to jail after being accused of illegal trespassing.

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