People's Daily Online
June 03, 2011
Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya (pictured) said Thursday that he was very satisfied with Thai lawyer team and agent presenting before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Cambodia's request for interpretation of 1962 ruling and provisional measure.
"We have been preparing ourselves for almost two years in a very thorough manner and every move, every argument has been argued over among the Thai side and we were able, I think in short, to explain, to rebuttal all the points raised by the Cambodian side with substance rational and with evidences.
"In that sense, I am satisfied, yes, definitely I am very satisfied," said the foreign minister who just returned from Hague.
He also reaffirmed that he was confident in the judges as well as the Court that the agency would hand down an impartial verdict.
"Their reputation has to do much with their intelligence, knowledge and rationality," Kasit noted.
Thai and Cambodian delegates had spent two days from May 30 to 31 in Hague, Netherlands to elaborate at the World Court as Phnom Penh submitted a petition for interpretation of the judgment rendered by the Court on June 15, 1962 in the case concerning the ancient temple of Preah Vihear on April 28, 2011.
The petition was accompanied by an urgent request for the indication of provisional measures in which Cambodia demanded Thailand to immediately and unconditionally withdraw troops from area surrounding the ruins.
According to the foreign minister, the Court's decision on provisional measure which includes immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Thai troops from the disputed area is likely to be delivered by the end of June or early July.
He said a judge from Brazil asked additional information on affected people along the border and so both countries were supposed to submit original reports by June 7 in order that each country could make comments on those reports and return them to the Court by June 14.
Although the Court decided in 1962 to award the Hindu temple to Cambodia, both countries have laid claims over the 4.6 square- kilometer plot of land surrounding.
Border tension flared up as Phnom Penh inscribed the ancient temple on the World Heritage List in 2008, triggering military build-up and sporadic clashes. In the latest border-fighting during April 22 to May 3, some score of soldiers were killed and about 100,000 residents on both sides of border were forced to evacuate.
Source: Xinhua
"We have been preparing ourselves for almost two years in a very thorough manner and every move, every argument has been argued over among the Thai side and we were able, I think in short, to explain, to rebuttal all the points raised by the Cambodian side with substance rational and with evidences.
"In that sense, I am satisfied, yes, definitely I am very satisfied," said the foreign minister who just returned from Hague.
He also reaffirmed that he was confident in the judges as well as the Court that the agency would hand down an impartial verdict.
"Their reputation has to do much with their intelligence, knowledge and rationality," Kasit noted.
Thai and Cambodian delegates had spent two days from May 30 to 31 in Hague, Netherlands to elaborate at the World Court as Phnom Penh submitted a petition for interpretation of the judgment rendered by the Court on June 15, 1962 in the case concerning the ancient temple of Preah Vihear on April 28, 2011.
The petition was accompanied by an urgent request for the indication of provisional measures in which Cambodia demanded Thailand to immediately and unconditionally withdraw troops from area surrounding the ruins.
According to the foreign minister, the Court's decision on provisional measure which includes immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Thai troops from the disputed area is likely to be delivered by the end of June or early July.
He said a judge from Brazil asked additional information on affected people along the border and so both countries were supposed to submit original reports by June 7 in order that each country could make comments on those reports and return them to the Court by June 14.
Although the Court decided in 1962 to award the Hindu temple to Cambodia, both countries have laid claims over the 4.6 square- kilometer plot of land surrounding.
Border tension flared up as Phnom Penh inscribed the ancient temple on the World Heritage List in 2008, triggering military build-up and sporadic clashes. In the latest border-fighting during April 22 to May 3, some score of soldiers were killed and about 100,000 residents on both sides of border were forced to evacuate.
Source: Xinhua
8 comments:
When I see this arrogance bastard I fell sick.
Thailand pretending to smile?
I have so much faith with the ICJ.
The world would going backward for two centuries,if the court decide that Thai would win this case.
Prea Vihear temple without the land surrounding it is just like a temple without history.
Prea Vihear was built by Khmer King and all the provinces along Khmer-Thai borders in Thailand used to be apart of Khmer kingdom,That is the fact.
We must sue Thai for the crimes that they inflicted on us such as shelling on the temples,using banned weapons and the cost of war.
Thai and Viet should be banned from ding businesses in Cambodia.They are our number ones enemies.We can live without them for 2,000 years.
True Khmer
I agree! We must sue Thailand for shelling cluster bombs, poison gas ammuntions on Preah vihear and cambodian villages...I hope Mr Hor NumHong told the judge about that too...
Those cluster bombs that Thai shelling on cambodian village will have alot of affect to cambodian people living there....these kind of bombs will scatter all over the vast area there...very very dangerous! Thailand must be prosecute under international law...geneva!
Satified with the lie, of course!. The truth will come out in favor of khmer. Long lives the khmer nation and people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't stand looking at this motherfucker face smilin! He think he won the case already...?? Fucken gay bastard!
If Cambodia presented our argument and evidences very well, we will win for sure. However, I don't trust the incompetent Sok An and Hor Namhong to handle such important lawsuit that has the potential to lose some of our territory to Thailand. Every time they go to negotiation, they always come back losing or empty-handed. Sok An did not present a good and strong case to Unesco very well that's why Thailand was able to block Preah Vihear management plan for a few years already. Hor Namhong did not argue well that's why UN Security Council and Asean did not take action against Thailand and Indonesian observers have not arrived in disputed areas 4 months after the agreement. This has happened because of Sok An's and Hor Namhong's weak and incompetent diplomacy.
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