People's Daily Online
March 24, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister for security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban (pictured) said on Thursday that he disagreed with a plan to allow presence of foreign troops in the disputed zone on the Thai-Cambodian border.
Suthep made the remarks after Army Chief General Prayut Chan- ocha mentioned that he did not want Indonesia or any third country to be involved in the Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission ( JBC) or General Border Committee (GBC) meetings.
Indonesia, the current chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), earlier this week proposed to hold JBC and military-led GBC on April 7 and 8.
The deputy prime minister said the presence of foreign troops at any spot in the overlapping zone should be allowed only with the co-presence of Thai and Cambodian troops, particularly where border demarcation remains unclear.
The deputy PM said the JBC meeting could not go forward because Thai parliament has not yet approved the minutes of three previous meetings.
He said the minutes would be proposed for the parliament's consideration on Friday so that the border-demarcation meeting would be able to continue.
The Article 190 of the 2007 Constitution reads that any agreement which will be made with foreign country and will have impact on the country's territory is required endorsement from the parliament.
As for the People's Alliance for the Democracy (PAD)'s plan to rally against the government's move to ratify those three minutes on Friday, Suthep said he was not very worried.
Thailand and Cambodia earlier agreed to allow Indonesian observers to monitor a ceasefire in a deadly border dispute between the two countries in February this year.
ASEAN foreign ministers said in a statement in Jakarta that they welcomed a commitment made by Thailand and Cambodia to avoid further armed clashes and urged both sides to resume bilateral negotiations as soon as possible.
Source: Xinhua
7 comments:
If third party involved Thailand can't cheat...So, they don't want foreigner troops to see them taken advantage on cambodian..
First Thailand has agree to send observers to the area...Now they don't?
This is telling me or the world that Thailand start fire first 100%! No question ask..
Cambodia must boost up heavy weapons in place, there's will be a long war...stragety!
If Thai the clown rejects the meeting, what'll happen to it? There seems to be a joke going around these days. So far, Thai only one can decide which way to go. Khmer and Indonesia just wait and wait. Wait till when? Till Thai agrees to join a multi-lateral talk? And when will Thai agree on that? In a century? When will Thai be exposed as a fraud it's ever been?
About Thai-Cambodia border dispute Cambodia has only file complaint to third party International court , UN , especially Paris accord 1993 this is the best way to get success because Cambodia is so week for fighting by arms forces
Samrainsy Party encounter again and again about internal and external disputes , I think that these are old tricks only not a new one , but the Party always increases its parliaments members all national election . Do you know the people who orchestrate all these ? we should think that no one is perfect no Party is perfect , we must think about how to liberate our country from YOUN , from corruption , Do any party can solve this ?
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