Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Thai-Cambodian ties stuck as Phnom Penh rejects minister's demand


Mon, 11 Jan 2010
By : dpa

(CAAI News Media)

Phnom Penh - The Cambodian government on Monday rejected a demand by Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya that Phnom Penh dismiss Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser before relations between the two countries could improve. Kasit's comments appeared Monday in the Financial Times newspaper, which quoted him as saying Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen "must delink himself from Thaksin; otherwise, there cannot be normalization of diplomatic relations, pure and simple."

Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan told the German Press Agency

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