Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha.Published: 22/03/2011
Bangkok Post
The Thai top brass has decided not to attend the 8th Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC) meeting which has been scheduled in Indonesia, insisting that any talks must be purely bilateral.
Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday that he and other armed forces commanders had resolved not to attend the GBC meeting in Bogor proposed by Indonesia and agreed to by Cambodia.
Indonesia initially proposed that the meeting be held on Mar ch 24 and 25 but later postponed it to April 7 and 8.
"We won't go. We don't want the meeting to be held in a third country.
"Soldiers of the two countries are very close to each other. Talks should be between soldiers of the two countries only, and a third party should not be involved," Gen Prayuth said.
The GBC is co-chaired by the defence ministers of the two countries.
Gen Prayuth also turned down Cambodia's proposal for the setting up of 15 checkpoints manned jointly by Thai and Cambodian soldiers in the 4.6 square kilometre disputed area, to accommodate observers from Indonedia.
He said this matter should be discussed at a meeting between soldiers of the two countries.
The situation along the border near the Preah Vihear temple was still normal and the two sides had been in contact, awaiting talks between military leaders, Gen Prayuth said.
A Defence Ministry source said Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon also decided not to go to the proposed GBC meeting in Indonesia.
Gen Prawit and Cambodian counterpart Gen Tea Banh as well as military leaders of the two countries enjoyed close ties, the source said.
The Thai defence minister planned to contact Gen Tea Banh to set a date for a bilateral meeting. However, he was not sure if Gen Tea Banh would agree, since Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had said he would not back a bilateral meeting, the source said.
According to the source, the meeting, if held, would be for the two sides to discuss the posting of Indonesian observers and deployment of troops in the disputed area.
14 comments:
thailand is military dictatorship country rule by gun the army doesn't have to obey commander in chief as long it obey the half dead king.
thailand is run by army
the army have yellow bracelet it mean they take order from the king only.
That mean siam oppose to the UN and ASIAN resolution then.make another complain.
Just send Asean Teams to our side, if Thailand scared and hesitated...Who care about Thailand come to the meeting or not?
The hole world know that Thailand is running by the millitary. Only some blind and uneducated Thai followers who don't see that.
Years after years, when the millitary don't like the Gov., they overthrow it.
Ofcourse they will use the word corrupted Gov. Yes there are some true to that, but it can't be all of them corrupted.
If you want to create chaos, all you have to do just say too many corruption in the Gov. !!!! The poor people will follow you, it doesn't matter it is true or not. There are more poor people than the rich you know !!!!!!
But one thing that people afraid to say is "Corrupted Millitary !!"
Cambodian army must be alert and ready at all time! Thai army want to expand and control more area of 4.6km, before Asean Team arrive...Thai trying to control the area as much as they could...
Its going to be hard for cambodian if Thai could control more of that area...though! They plans to take this oppt. as much as they could...before negotiation table start?
Thailand can't be trusted, a distrustful nation. The UN forced it to attend the Asean meeting in Indonesia on 22 Feb and it agreed to accept Indonesian observers. Now, it turned around and reject the Indonesian meeting and also reject the Indonesian observers. Thailand is not sincere in finding a peaceful border solution with Cambodia, but also has someting to hide from the world about its invasion of Cambodian territory. Shame on this dishonest nation and people.
cambodia have 2.5 billion dollars reserve cambodia government should use that money buy modern long range multi-rocket launchers from china or russia that can reach major thailand airports in case cambodian troops was attack by thai airplanes cambodia can release few of the rockets do some damages to the airports , for insurance and security for cambodia troops have more modern SAM, for the infantry PHL-03 or BM30 (100 units) will insure the stability of the country , cambodia should ask some help from russia ( russia and thailand not get along well) some help from the back door from china (china cannot help cambodia openly because china have some business interested in thailand) vietnam is the allied that cambodia never bypass ( india & france definitely in cambodia side) may be cambodia should sign the friendship agreement with russia to help to protect cambodia territory ( american did sign the agreement with south korea).
If khmer already know that all lands around the temple belong to khmer, why go back to court? khmer need to push ah siem or thai out and take some of their lands.
I agree with some of your comments above! I think we should buy more heavy long range Multi rocket launcher..Yes! (SMERCH-BM-300MM) We could loan them from China or Russia...The BM-21, D-30-122mm that we have right now, is not enough though? We need something mordern and very high tech!!
Smerch-BM-30mm team up with BM-21.. Holy Shit!! Vietnamese will shit in their pants...
Dreaming khmen hahaha!
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