Published: June 27, 2011
PARIS, June 27 (UPI) -- Thailand should carefully consider its decision to shun a convention surrounding world heritage sites, a U.N. official said amid border spats with Cambodia.
The Thai government said it didn't support the World Heritage Convention, the latest flare-up in a border dispute with Cambodia.
Irina Bokov (pictured), director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said her agency was an "indispensable tool" for international cooperation. Thailand, she said in a statement, should "carefully consider its future course of action" regarding the convention.
Cambodia has called in the International Court of Justice again to weigh in on a dispute surrounding access and ownership of land near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, declared a World Heritage site in 2008.
The ICJ in 1962 ruled the temple on the site was on Cambodian land but some access to the mountaintop site passes through Thai territory, a route that Thai troops occasionally seal off.
Fighting has flared in the area within the past several years. Cambodia said it would keep its troops positioned on the border.
The Thai government said it didn't support the World Heritage Convention, the latest flare-up in a border dispute with Cambodia.
Irina Bokov (pictured), director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said her agency was an "indispensable tool" for international cooperation. Thailand, she said in a statement, should "carefully consider its future course of action" regarding the convention.
Cambodia has called in the International Court of Justice again to weigh in on a dispute surrounding access and ownership of land near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, declared a World Heritage site in 2008.
The ICJ in 1962 ruled the temple on the site was on Cambodian land but some access to the mountaintop site passes through Thai territory, a route that Thai troops occasionally seal off.
Fighting has flared in the area within the past several years. Cambodia said it would keep its troops positioned on the border.
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