People's Daily Online
October 27, 2010
Cambodian military delegation left Cambodia on Wednesday for border talks with Thailand.
Gen. Nem Sowath, cabinet chief of Deputy Prime Minister Tea Banh, said the Cambodian delegation led by Neang Phat (pictured) left here for Thailand on Wednesday for the 7th General Border Committee (GBC) between Cambodia and Thailand which is set to start from Oct. 27 to 30 in Bangkok, Thailand.
He said the preparatory meetings will start on Oct. 27 and 28 which will pave the way for the meeting of the defense ministers from the two countries on Oct. 29-30. Tea Banh, also the minister of defense will leave on Oct. 29.
The GBC is co-chaired by defence ministers from the two countries and the forum is designed to help solve any problems arising along the border of the two nations including transnational crimes, drug smuggling, security, health, terrorism among others.
Cambodia and Thailand have had border conflict just one week after Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple was registered as World Heritage Site in July 2008.
Since the conflict started, military standoff has been on and off along the two countries' border and several military clashes have already been happened with recorded small causalities from both sides. These border conflict is yet resolved.
The border issue, however, has been eased as the top leaders of Cambodia and Thailand have held two meetings in recent weeks.
The first meeting was held in New York on the sidelines of the ASEAN-U.S. Summit and the second was held in Brussels in Belgium, also on the sidelines of the ASEM Summit.
Source:Xinhua
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