Piyaporn Wongruang
Bangkok Post
If security analyst Surachart Bamrungsuk is correct, bilateral talks between Thailand and Cambodia to resolve the border dispute are already over.
The game has changed gradually since Cambodia nominated Preah Vihear Temple on the disputed Thai-Cambodian border in the Dangrek Range as a World Heritage site in 2008. Cambodia won approval from the World Heritage Committee, but it did not manage to take the adjacent area of 4.6 square kilometres as part of the World Heritage site, following strong opposition from Thailand.
Cambodia has since developed the management plan for completing conservation work on Preah Vihear, despite Thailand’s fear that the Khmer plans include the overlapping area under dispute. Tensions regarding the border issue have simmered and occasionally spilled over into actual clashes.
Instead of getting back on the bilateral platform they have under the Memorandum of Understanding on the Survey and Demarcation of Land Boundary, signed in 2000, Cambodia has chosen to get a third party involved.
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