March 06, 2011
Phnom Penh will wait until Thailand's parliament ratifies the previous memos of Joint- Boundary Commission (JBC) meetings before it will accept Bangkok' s proposal on the next JBC meeting, Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
Thailand has proposed to hold the next JBC on March 7-8 with its neighboring Cambodia in order to discuss border demarcation.
The issue so far has not yet been submitted for approval of Thai parliament; therefore, it is uncertain the next JBC would be held in Indonesia during March 7-8, Thani Thongpakdi, FM spokesman said.
The Article 190 of Thailand's 2007 Constitution regulates that any treaty to be signed with other foreign countries and may bring about territorial changes requires parliament's ratification before it will be implemented.
The spokesman insisted that the meeting would be carried out bilaterally not multilaterally as Cambodian preferred. There might be the third country to facilitate talks but only Thailand and Cambodia would be at negotiating table, he added.
The two neighboring countries share a common border approximately 800 kilometers (500 miles) long but demarcation has never been fully completed. The 11th-century Preah Vihear temple has been the subject of age-old border dispute for decades. Although the International Court of Justice awarded the Hindu temple to Cambodia in 1962, the dispute over area adjacent to the temple has never been solved.
Listing of the temple to Unesco's World Heritage Site in 2008 fueled tensions between the two countries, resulting in military build-up with sporadic skirmishes. The latest deadly clashes on Feb 4-7, when both countries exchanged small arms firing and shelling, caused loss of lives of civilian population and soldiers on both sides as well as massive evacuation of residents along the border.
Source: Xinhua
2 comments:
I am in Cambodia and I pay a visite to USA 2 months a year, I never work in US and I alway have my own business in Cambodia, as you said I may have personal problem with Rainsy, no, I am not, I dont know who you are, but for me it take me maximume 6 months to find out what my mission with rainsy worth something or not, The answer is not, not and not at all? rainsy set up SRP is like SRP charity or SRP company, my man it never enought money for rainsy, event though you give hime ton of money, and may be sacrifice to burn yourself to support him, and the result is Rainsy will never gave you any gratitud,or love back to you, you may know that yourself right? aren't you?. I kept saying that Rainsy is Thai double agent you want proofe, here it is, Rainsy set up and office in Thailand, with the Thai support, some of my activist Piseth, Horm, and sareth are living in that office for more than a years during escape in 2005-
2006, and the granad attack in 1997 Rainsy he wear the bulletproof, what does it mean to you? and Chim Chany he got hit by the bullet on his lege serousely injude, with many other supporter. you may put on believe to Rainsy for futur personal benifite promissed but let me reassure you, that promise are in the air, rainsy will never mean what he said. you have to thank me for reveal this to you, rainsy if you analy a bit you can easily tell that Rainsy is not a truthworthy man at all, Rainsy integrity is Zero, hope you heard me clear about Rainsy business. rainsy call on for jasmine, what doese it mean? does he car about chaose, lossing life and business suffer and for sure the Thai will immediatly occupy preah vihear, that is what you want? rainsy never care about any Khmer, but his embition for power and his Family wealthy rich from khmer slave, are you happy being tools used by rainsy, then you are not true to yourself and your vision of helping to make Khmer stronger. I am Mike I truely care about econmy stability and pesued the happiness of my belove Khmer. Rgards, Mike
Mike, I don't have time to further engage in a debate with you, but I ask you to think about national interests, not personal vengeance like what you have done in the last few months. What I see in you is a very angry person, full of vengeance against Sam Rainsy. You have launched continuous attacks on Rainsy in this blog non-stop. I wish you come to this or any other blog and debate some senses, not launching a personal attack on anyone. If you have a personal problem with Rainsy, just deal it with him personally in other venues because this is not a suitable forum for you to set old scores with Rainsy because you might have offended some readers here. I am not a Rainsy supporter, but I'm no fan of Hun sen either.
Post a Comment