Published: Aug. 12, 2011
BANGKOK, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to discuss troop withdrawals from the area near the Preah Vihear temple, where clashes killed several people.
The agreement to meet is a sign relations between the neighboring countries are improving, the Bangkok Post reported Friday.
Commanders from Thailand's Second Army Region and Cambodia's Division 4 will lead the Regional Border Committee meeting, which is set for Aug. 23-24 in Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailand.
"I declare a new era of cooperation between [the countries] now that Thailand is ruled by the Pheu Thai Party," Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) said.
"What was going on in the last few years, which I considered nightmarish cooperation between the two countries, is now over. Now we have to start negotiations at a bilateral level in order to ease the tensions," Hun Sen said.
Hun Sen urged the two sides to set up a General Border Commission to settle disputes near the ancient temple, where border clashes earlier this year left several people dead.
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It was a wake called for cambodian government not updaing our military, our government did not care and pay more attention to our poor equipped soldiers, but when our enemy showing up at the door step we all scramble running around grabbing slingshot, bow an errow like chicken with the head cut off..? I blamed our govt for careless...too peacful and under estimated our enemy!
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