By The Nation on Sunday Published on December 26, 2010
Thailand is “ sincere” about resolving the Preah Vihear Temple dispute with Cambodia, said Atavit Suwannapakdee, deputy spokesperson of the ruling Democrat Party, brushing aside recent reports from Cambodia to the contrary.
Atavit said yesterday that currently the Constitution Court is considering whether the Joint Border Committee (JBC) report must be approved by Parliament or not, as might be required under Article 190 of the current charter.
“ To claim that Thailand is insincere in addressing the border dispute peacefully … is not fair to the government. We hope it will be understood that the government is sincere in trying to arrive at a peaceful accord,” said Atavit.
Meanwhile, Democrat Party spokesperson Buranaj Smutharaks said the prime minister had set up a working committee to evaluate the government’s efforts in solving the Preah Vihear dispute.
The party has produced a 63-page report that will help shed light on the issue. The document, which includes questions and answers on relevant issues, will also be produced in CD form and posted online so people will understand the government’s efforts in protecting the national interest.
Asked by reporters if all this was being done to please the People’s Alliance for Democracy(PAD), who will be staging a protest on the government’s performance on the issue in January, Buranaj said it was being done to help the PAD understand the government’s way of defending the national interest.
Regarding the JBC, Atavit, who is among the reviewers of the committee’s work, said he hopes the PAD will better understand the government’s position.
In a related development, ASTV-Manager Daily online cited a group called “ 15 Move” as stating that a Cambodian parliamentarian, Ngun Nhel, had informed a Thai lawmaker on Thursday that Cambodia wants the Thai Parliament to approve the JBC agreement in order to put to rest the dispute, and for peace and friendship between the two nations.
The report stated that the Thai Parliament could not give the green light due to internal political conflicts.
A summary of 33 questions and answers pertaining to the Thai-Cambodian border dispute was posted on PM Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Facebook yesterday. The notes posted with Abhisit’s approval, include the answers to the questions from the yellow shirt PAD. The notes also said the government was firm on protecting the country’s sovereignty and rights. It would not accept the French map drawn to 1:200000 scale, nor change its stance in exchange for other interests.
The notes received hundreds of comments within a few hours.
3 comments:
God damn thai always dance around the issue. There is nothing more to solve other than to ge the fuck out of Cambodian territory.
Thailand never wanted to resolve border issues peacefully because Cambodia has the legal advantage. The so-called disputed zone claimed by Thailand was under Cambodia control and it's part of Cambodian territory under the 1907 treaty and 1908 map commissioned by Mixed French-Thai Border Committee(called a French map by Thailand). Thailand has accept the 1907 treaty and accept the "French map" for 50 years or 100 years until invaded the area in 2008. To say that it does not recognize it now, Thailand is show its disrespect for international laws and the treaty agreed and accepted by their ancestors and kings. Thieves will always be thieves if we allowed them to steal whatever they wanted from us. They must be stopped.
Leopard never change its colour.We Khmer should claim back more land from Thailand for what Thai have stolen from Cambodia,but instead Thai still coming back for more land. What's a shame full nation.
It is now 21st century, Thai is still a thieve nation,will Thai be a civilised neighbour?. No, as you see they still kill Khmer on the border. It is against human right and the entire civilised world we are living now.
This is what Hanoi wants to see Thai invade from the west and Hanoi will take this time to Vietnamize Cambodia as well as to encroach its border from the east at the same time. That's why you see the zombie Hun doing the border issues this way.These issues are not allowed to challenged or to be debated in the democratic way.It is a direct instruction from Hanoi to its mechanism CPP.
Thai and Viet have made their final advance to kill off the ageing kingdom of Cambodia.
The next generation that rule Cambodia is Viet not Khmer as we are now being run by Vietcong through its designed mechanism CPP.
By the time brain-less Hanoi's appointed Hun sen and his clans wake up Cambodia is dead by virus Hanoi just like Kampuchea Krom,under Chhey Chhetha the 2nd.
Please look at your children faces,where will they end up as Hun Sen is now being lost in the Hanoi designed bubble-paradise of power and money?.Should you do something?
True Khmer
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