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Thailand had created the overlapping areas (600,000 acres) of land and maritime area inside the territory that falls under of Cambodia's sovereignty .
The Thai government demanded a negotiation with the Cambodian government on the overlapping areas, by not allowing a third party to intervene. If this sort of bilateral negotiations is not successful, then Thailand will use force to drive out Cambodians living in the Cambodian areas claimed by Thailand.
This is the 21st century and the end of the Cold War and the conflict in Indochina. There are ample opportunities for Thailand to expand its economic empire to neighboring countries and becoming a regional economic hub. However, these opportunities will be disappeared if Thailand is acting like a bully boy.
The opening of the Preah Vihear Temple for tourism will undoubtedly benefit Thai businesses. The Preah Vihear Temple was and still is part of Thailand’s cross-border business and tourism.
Thailand wanted the listing of the temple to be done jointly, but Cambodia wanted to do it alone. Cambodia had submitted the nomination file for the 2007 World Heritage Committee meeting unilaterally, an act that upsets Thailand greatly because Cambodia did not consult Thailand because Cambodia considers that Thailand has no business in the affair of the inscription of Preah Vihear temple.
Facing with refusal from Cambodia, the Thai government gave up the joint inscription proposal and focused and intensified its campaign solely on turning the issue into a dispute over the overlapping areas with Cambodia.
Here is the International Court Justice's opinion in 1962 regarding the frontier line in the disputed area:
“Thailand in 1908-1909 did accept the Annex I map as representing the outcome of the work of delimitation, and hence recognized the line on the map as being the frontier line, the effect of which is to situate Preah Vihear in Cambodian territory. Both Parties, by their conduct, recognized the line and thereby in effect agreed to regard it as being the frontier line. The acceptance of the Annex I map by the Parties caused the map to enter the treaty settlement and to become an integral part of it.”
The Annex I Map puts Preah Vihear temple and its vicinity squarely inside Cambodia. So, from the above ICJ's deliberation, the answer of which country the temple and its surrounding areas belong to is self-concluded.
Thailand had created the overlapping areas (600,000 acres) of land and maritime area inside the territory that falls under of Cambodia's sovereignty .
The Thai government demanded a negotiation with the Cambodian government on the overlapping areas, by not allowing a third party to intervene. If this sort of bilateral negotiations is not successful, then Thailand will use force to drive out Cambodians living in the Cambodian areas claimed by Thailand.
This is the 21st century and the end of the Cold War and the conflict in Indochina. There are ample opportunities for Thailand to expand its economic empire to neighboring countries and becoming a regional economic hub. However, these opportunities will be disappeared if Thailand is acting like a bully boy.
The opening of the Preah Vihear Temple for tourism will undoubtedly benefit Thai businesses. The Preah Vihear Temple was and still is part of Thailand’s cross-border business and tourism.
Thailand wanted the listing of the temple to be done jointly, but Cambodia wanted to do it alone. Cambodia had submitted the nomination file for the 2007 World Heritage Committee meeting unilaterally, an act that upsets Thailand greatly because Cambodia did not consult Thailand because Cambodia considers that Thailand has no business in the affair of the inscription of Preah Vihear temple.
Facing with refusal from Cambodia, the Thai government gave up the joint inscription proposal and focused and intensified its campaign solely on turning the issue into a dispute over the overlapping areas with Cambodia.
Here is the International Court Justice's opinion in 1962 regarding the frontier line in the disputed area:
“Thailand in 1908-1909 did accept the Annex I map as representing the outcome of the work of delimitation, and hence recognized the line on the map as being the frontier line, the effect of which is to situate Preah Vihear in Cambodian territory. Both Parties, by their conduct, recognized the line and thereby in effect agreed to regard it as being the frontier line. The acceptance of the Annex I map by the Parties caused the map to enter the treaty settlement and to become an integral part of it.”
The Annex I Map puts Preah Vihear temple and its vicinity squarely inside Cambodia. So, from the above ICJ's deliberation, the answer of which country the temple and its surrounding areas belong to is self-concluded.
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It is a lot of land 600,000acre s=240,000Ha . We should buy big rockets in the hurry to defend our land otherwise it never end the only we can stop Thai ambitious is to kill them.
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