PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) – Cambodian and Thai border row near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple could harm the efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) toward a community by 2015, said analysts here on Saturday.
“ASEAN will be difficult to achieve its security community by 2015 if it cannot mediate to resolve the dispute between Cambodia and Thailand,” Chheang Vannarith, executive director of Cambodian Institute of Cooperation and Peace, said in an interview with Xinhua on Saturday.
ASEAN will have communities including economic, security, and socio-cultural ones.
“By 2015, I believe that it can achieve only the economic community and social and cultural community,” he said.
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