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| Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, second left, shakes hands with his Thai counterpart Kasit Piromya as Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, center, Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo, left, and Laos’ Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith look on during Informal ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. (Photo: AP) |
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC Tuesday, 22 February 2011
“Only the court can define whose land it is.”
With Thai and Cambodian foreign ministers meeting in Jakarta on Tuesday, Cambodian analysts say the best way to resolve an ongoing border dispute is to call on the International Court of Justice to clarify a decision it made in 1962.
That decision, which handed Preah Vihear temple to the Cambodians, who had filed for it, could also clarify a disputed area of 4.6 square kilometers of land near the temple, analysts said this week.
Cambodia is hoping that meetings among Asean ministers in Jakarta will bring about a resolution to the violence stemming from the dispute, including deadly clashes earlier this month.
However, proponents of the court clarification told VOA Khmer that the UN Security Council and Asean, both of which have weighed in on the conflict, are political bodies that can perhaps bring about an end to fighting but cannot fix the underlying issue of the land dispute itself.
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