A two day meeting
of the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Working Group of the General Border Commission
has not reached agreement over the implementation of an International Court of
Justice ruling that orders a withdrawal of troops from the area around Preah
Vihear temple.
Speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday,
Cambodian delegation head Neang Path said
the JWG would meet again in Cambodia, but no date had been set.
“We made progress at the meeting, but we have not yet reached an
agreement over the troop withdrawal from the Provisional Demilitarised Zone,”
Neang Path said.
ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said at yesterday’s
International Conference on Political Public Relations that Indonesian Foreign
Minister Marty Natalegawa was still facilitating discussion between Cambodia
and Thailand.
“I think the two sides are working through their bilateral mechanism,
and I have observed in the meeting that they are discussing and talking to each
other, so I hope everything is under control,” Surin said, adding that he had
not been told when Indonesian military observers would be dispatched to the
PDZ.
Cambodia filed a complaint with the ICJ after deadly clashes near the
temple in February last year, asking it to re-interpret its 1962 ruling on
territorial claims regarding the temple and surrounding area.
Kim Yuthana and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
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