The Jakarta Post
Indonesia, as the holder of ASEAN’s current chair, recently hosted a brief foreign ministers meeting in Jakarta to help Cambodia and Thailand settle their heated border dispute over the Preah Vhear temple.
Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya spoke to The Jakarta Post’s Mustaqim Adamrah about how ASEAN is managing its new bilateral dispute mechanism. Below are excerpts from the interview:
Question: Why did Thailand accept a proposal to send Indonesian soldiers to the disputed border?
Answer: I think if there are no third parties [at Preah Vhear], then you could say that you shot first, or I shot first, and so on.
We have the experience of Thai military observers who were in Aceh and Timor Leste at the request of the Indonesian government. There’s nothing new here.
We agreed to have Indonesian Military observers, 15 members on each side of the border, to observe.
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