DPA
Bangkok/Phnom Penh - Thailand on Friday threatened to revoke an agreement on joint petroleum exploration with Cambodia and close their common border to trade in an escalating diplomatic spat over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said he would ask a cabinet meeting on Tuesday to approve the revoking of a Thai-Cambodia memorandum of understanding on joint oil and gas exploration in an overlapping continental shelf area that was signed in June 2001 during Thaksin's premiership.
Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaunsuban, meanwhile, threatened to close the Thai-Cambodian border to trade if Cambodia continued to take an aggressive stance towards the government.
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