Cambodian-Thai border talks set for January

Cambodian-Thai border talks set for January
December 29, 2008

Cambodia will resume talks with Thailand over their disputed border in
late January, as a tense military standoff at contested areas of the
frontier enters its sixth month, national media said on Monday.

"The next meeting (of the Joint Border Commission) will be held in
Thailand as agreed," Var Kinhong, Cambodia's top negotiator for border
issues, was quoted by English-language daily newspaper the Phnom Penh
Post as saying.

"The Thai parliament will hold internal discussion on the border
issues first, and after they have approved (the agenda), the two sides
will set the schedule," he added.

Cambodia and Thailand have never finally demarcated their 805-km
shared border, but a meeting between both foreign ministers in
November yielded an agreement to scale down troop numbers along the
border and begin demarcation and demining operations from mid-
December.

It was the most concrete progress made yet to resolve tensions on the
border, which escalated after Cambodia first accused Thai troops of
entering its territory in July, shortly after Cambodia's Preah Vihear
Temple was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Source:Xinhua
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