Thailand and Cambodia will sign a single visa agreement on Monday enabling visitors from outside to use only one visa for two countries
- From: Chim <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:44:52 -0800 (PST)
One visa for two countries
Thailand and Cambodia will sign a single visa agreement on Monday
enabling visitors from outside to use only one visa for two countries,
the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram would sign the agreement with
this Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong when he makes his official
visit to Phnom Penh on Monday.
The pact was a pilot project under the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong
Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS).
Set up since 2003, ACMECS is a joint development scheme made of
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
Under the initiative of "Four countries, One Destination", the ACMECS
Single Visa pact aimed to facilitate tourism in the region.
Foreign ministers of four countries agreed in Siem Riep in August 2005
to allow Thailand and Cambodia to implement the scheme first and the
remaining members might join later if it is successful.
Visitors from outside could apply entry visa at embassies of either
Thailand or Cambodia for two nations, said the ministry's spokesman
Tharit Charungvat.
The arrangement would benefit for tourism of the two countries and
visits apply only one visa to both Thailand and Cambodia which have
many different attractive sites, he said.
However, the pact would not come into force until the Interior
Ministry and concern agencies issued related regulations to enforce,
Tharit said but did not say when such related regulations would be
finished.
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