JAKARTA, March 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Cambodia and Thailand are expected to resume their bilateral negotiations on a disputed border area on April 7-8 in Indonesia, a Cabinet minister said Wednesday.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in an interview with the Japanese media that the meeting will take place in Bogor in West Java Province.
"That meeting will be a meeting between Thailand and Cambodia on the border issues, but at the same time, Indonesia will be appropriately engaged as the chairman's statement stated," he added.
The minister referred to the Feb. 22 ASEAN informal ministerial meeting in Jakarta that was held to discuss the border dispute.
Indonesia, as the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, was tasked by the U.N. Security Council to help mediate the border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.
Cambodia and Thailand have been at loggerheads over their rival claims to 4.6 square kilometers of land around a temple on the border.
Since the temple was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2008, several rounds of border clashes have occurred.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in an interview with the Japanese media that the meeting will take place in Bogor in West Java Province.
"That meeting will be a meeting between Thailand and Cambodia on the border issues, but at the same time, Indonesia will be appropriately engaged as the chairman's statement stated," he added.
The minister referred to the Feb. 22 ASEAN informal ministerial meeting in Jakarta that was held to discuss the border dispute.
Indonesia, as the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, was tasked by the U.N. Security Council to help mediate the border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.
Cambodia and Thailand have been at loggerheads over their rival claims to 4.6 square kilometers of land around a temple on the border.
Since the temple was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2008, several rounds of border clashes have occurred.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
6 comments:
Rich and powerful country alway taken side...and neglected the poor!
ASEAN should not hesitated and delaying..? I think Thailand fill in Asean's head within an earful...caused Cambodia a great lost! I hated richest country, they usually taken side...yep!
As a human being, I am sure that the meeting will definitely not work. The Asean committee are bias. To my own perspective, the offender, Thai, should be punished based on the evidence and bad behavior. God bless Cambodian.
Well, if more fightin erupt and more people died, we will blamed Asean for delaying...UN must punish Thailand and Asean instead! or blamed Asean instead...
Thailand is flip-flopping again, asking Indinesia to change meeting dates and agenda many times. Shame! Indonesia should not allow itself to be led by the nose by thailand, the same as Thailand has led Cambodia by the nose in past negotiations. Thailand has no sincereity and will to end this conflict peacefully, but by force. It does not want to see Indo observers along the border because it has something to hide.
No matter how hard cambodian trying...Thailand alway came up with some new trick to stop cambodian from the outsider..
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