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Saturday 14 July 2012

Cambodia will withdraw troops from Preah Vihear next week

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RCAF soldiers were transported out of areas near the Thailand-Cambodia border after being replaced by new units last year. (Phnom Penh Post: Photograph: supplied).

Cambodia to pull out next week

14 July 2012
Writer: Thanida Tansubhapol 
Bangkok Post

PHNOM PENH : Cambodia announced yesterday it would withdraw its military personnel from the the Provisional Demilitarised Zone (PDZ) near Preah Vihear temple on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said during a news conference after the Asean Ministerial Meeting that the announcement had been made by Cambodia's Defence Ministry.
He said Cambodia will withdraw 480 military personnel from the area.
"The withdrawal is a sign showing Cambodia's strong will to implement the International Court of Justice's order of last year," he said.
Cambodia can withdraw all military personnel from the PDZ in 24 hours, Hor Namhong said.

The withdrawal will proceed on Wednesday, which marks the one-year anniversary of the ICJ's order for Cambodia and Thailand to pull their armed personnel out from 17.3 sq km PDZ on disputed land near the 10th-century Preah Vihear temple.
The dispute over the temple flared up in July 2008 after Unesco's World Heritage Committee approved Cambodia's request to list the Hindu temple as a World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008.
This dispute led to exchanges of fire between troops of the two countries last year.
Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat yesterday accompanied Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to Siem Reap for a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
He also joined the talks on the issue of redeployment of troops from both countries in the disputed area around Preah Vihear.
However, he could not give a specific timeframe for troop redeployment, although he said the two sides would do this simultaneously.
Both countries are deploying border patrol police, possibly to replace soldiers.
ACM Sukumpol dismissed claims by the opposition Democrat Party that the troop redeployment was in exchange for cooperation in energy business interests in disputed maritime areas in the Gulf of Thailand.
He insisted the redeployment of troops would benefit both countries and ease tensions between the two sides.
Meanwhile, Ms Yingluck and Myanmar President Thein Sein yesterday had a brief meeting during the Asean-United States Business Forum hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh.
Ms Yingluck said after the talks that she had asked Thein Sein to help take care of 92 Thais detained in Myanmar and land encroachment charges.
The prime minister said Thein Sein assured her that his government would give the arrested Thais justice and fairness.
Ms Yingluck said, however, that the Myanmar president insisted that his government would press on with legal action against the detained Thais, as they allegedly had weapons and explosives in their possession when they were arrested.
The Thais have been arrested on suspicion of illegally encroaching on land in Myanmar opposite to Ranong's Kra Buri district for a period of nearly two weeks.
Thai officials said the suspects had been duped into buying land in Myanmar by a Thai gang.
They were allegedly cutting down trees and clearing an area to plant rubber trees there.
As for economic cooperation, Ms Yingluck said the two countries agreed to help develop the Dawei deep seaport project in Myanmar and related public infrastructure systems.
Thein Sein will pay an official visit to Thailand between July 22 and July 24 and will travel to Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri to learn about its operations, she said.

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