Thailand and Cambodia started peace interviews on Monday in Malaysia looking for a “immediate” ceasefire in a deadly border conflict that escalated last week.
Thai acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet started their interviews in the administrative capital of Putrajaya at 15:15 local time (0715 GMT).
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Here’s all you need to know about the conversations about the truce of Thailand-Kambodia:
1. The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia met in the residence of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who served the chairman of the ASEAN block, members of which are Thailand and Cambodia.
Anwar Ibrahim proposed talks about the ceasefire soon after a border dispute broke into conflict on Thursday, and China and the United States also offered to help in negotiations.
2. The Malaysian Prime Minister said he would focus on “immediate ceasefire”. Late Sunday said that both sides would present their conditions for peace, but “the immediate ceasefire” is “important.
“I hope it can work,” Anwar quoted as Malaysian National Press Agency Bernama. “Although it is not as bad as many other countries, we have to stop (to violence), he added.
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3. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump warned that his administration might not continue to commercial agreements with any country if hostility continues.
After standing calls with Phumtham and Hun Manet on Saturday, Trump threatened that Washington would not conclude a business agreement until the fighting continued.
According to Bloomberg, Trump said before discussions that Thai and Cambodian leaders agreed to “quickly develop a ceasefire”.
Marco Rubio’s best diplomat in Washington said that officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were on Earth in Malaysia to help “peace effort”, while Cambodia said it would participate in a delegation from his close ally.
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4. China said on Monday that it welcomed efforts to end the fight between Cambodia and Thai, because in Malaysia interviews began to find a ceasefire between Southeast Asian nations.
“We hope that both sides will start from the shared interests of their nations, follow the spirit of peace award and promote good neighborhoods, remain calm and restrict, stop the conflict and end the conflict as soon as possible,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiakun.
5. Before negotiations in Malaysia, the leader of Thailand said there were doubts about Cambodia sincerity.
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“We are not sure in Cambodia, their actions have so far reflected sincerity in solving the problem,” he quoted the agency agency before his departure to Malaysia.
He said, “Cambodia violated international law, but everyone wants to see peace. No one wants to see the violence that affects civilians.”
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6. Meanwhile, Cambodia strongly denied Thai accusations of firing civilian goals, and instead stated that Thailand had threatened innocent lives. It required an international community to condemn Thailand’s aggression.
A spokesman for the Cambodian Ministry of Defense Mala Socheat said that on Monday it is “the fifth day when Thailand attacked Cambodian territory with heavy weapons and the deployment of many soldiers”.
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Monday’s interviews refer to the first formal dialogue because fresh clashes broke out on July 24, killing at least 35 people and more than 150,000 civilians on both sides of their 800 kilometers (500 miles) of the border.
The tension between Thai and Cambodia was intensified from the end of May at the end of May at the end of May.
Both Thailand and Cambodia accuse the other of the start of the fighting last week and then escalated clashes with heavy artillery bombing in several places along their ground border 817 km (508 miles), the smallest conflict in more than ten years between the Southeast Asian neighborhood.
In the middle of speculation on the interviews about the ceasefire, the soldiers from both sides reported ongoing fighting on Monday along the border areas. Shooting could be heard when Dawn disintegrated in a samrong in the Cambodian province of Dezdar Meanchey, agency reporters cover the conflict.
(Tagstotranslate) Thailand
