By Nuntida Puangthong
The NationDeutsche
Presse Agenture
Full General Border Committee meeting starts
A closed door meeting between Thai Supreme Commander Gen Boonsang Niempradit and Cambodia's defence minister Gen Tea Banh has finished after almost four hours in a bid to solve the military standoff near Preah Vihear Temple.
Both are chairmen of ThaiCambodia General Border Committee (GBC) and started the closeddoor meeting (known as the "four-eyed meeting") at 11am at the Indochina Hotel in Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district.
The special GBC meeting was called to defuse the tense military situation near Preah Vihear Temple.The full GBC meeting will start after the conclusion of the foureyed meeting.
Other senior officials including Army Defence Minister Gen Anupong Paojinda and Permanent Secretary of Foreign affairs Virasakdi Futrakul also attended the meeting.
Both countries have deployed about 4,000 troops to a 4.6 square kilometre plot of land near the temple. The area claimed on the Thai side claimed is an overlapping zone which the Khmer side claims as in its soil.
The border spat coincided with the annual meeting of Asean foreign ministers meeting in Singapore this week.
Cambodia tried to use the Asean ministerial meeting as a mechanism to defuse the standoff. However Thailand rejected the effort, saying the conflict should be approached on a bilateral basis.
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo urged Cambodia and Thailand to exercise the utmost restraint while finding a peaceful solution to the row.
"We urge both sides to exercise utmost restraint and resolve this issue amicably, in the spirit of Asean solidarity and good neighbourliness," Yeo said after an informal dinner of Asean officials on the eve of annual ministerial meeting.
Yeo said Asean can offer its facilities if Thailand and Cambodia fail to solve their dispute over Preah Vihear.
The NationDeutsche
Presse Agenture
Full General Border Committee meeting starts
A closed door meeting between Thai Supreme Commander Gen Boonsang Niempradit and Cambodia's defence minister Gen Tea Banh has finished after almost four hours in a bid to solve the military standoff near Preah Vihear Temple.
Both are chairmen of ThaiCambodia General Border Committee (GBC) and started the closeddoor meeting (known as the "four-eyed meeting") at 11am at the Indochina Hotel in Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district.
The special GBC meeting was called to defuse the tense military situation near Preah Vihear Temple.The full GBC meeting will start after the conclusion of the foureyed meeting.
Other senior officials including Army Defence Minister Gen Anupong Paojinda and Permanent Secretary of Foreign affairs Virasakdi Futrakul also attended the meeting.
Both countries have deployed about 4,000 troops to a 4.6 square kilometre plot of land near the temple. The area claimed on the Thai side claimed is an overlapping zone which the Khmer side claims as in its soil.
The border spat coincided with the annual meeting of Asean foreign ministers meeting in Singapore this week.
Cambodia tried to use the Asean ministerial meeting as a mechanism to defuse the standoff. However Thailand rejected the effort, saying the conflict should be approached on a bilateral basis.
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo urged Cambodia and Thailand to exercise the utmost restraint while finding a peaceful solution to the row.
"We urge both sides to exercise utmost restraint and resolve this issue amicably, in the spirit of Asean solidarity and good neighbourliness," Yeo said after an informal dinner of Asean officials on the eve of annual ministerial meeting.
Yeo said Asean can offer its facilities if Thailand and Cambodia fail to solve their dispute over Preah Vihear.
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