Hor Namhong: Thailand ignored UN
Thailand sticks to line of opposing outsiders
17/02/2011
Thanida Tansubhapol and Agencies
Bangkok Post
Thailand has rebuffed a plan by Cambodia to ask the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to send observers to monitor the shaky ceasefire along the border.
The move comes less than a week before foreign ministers from the Asean member countries meet in Jakarta where they will discuss the border spat.
There has also been an upturn in fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops at Phu Makhua mountain in Kantharalak district of Si Sa Ket province, which is part of the area under dispute.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told reporters in Phnom Penh yesterday on his return from the United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday night that Cambodia would lodge a request for Asean observers at the Jakarta meeting.
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