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Bangkok – Thailand has asked the United Nations to postpone the World Heritage listing process of a millenial temple on its common border with Cambodia until a territorial dispute has been settled, the prime minister said Sunday.
Abhisit Vejjajiva in his weekly television broadcast said he made the request by telephone to Irina Bokova, director-general of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
‘I think UNESCO now understands our position on the problems with Phra Viharn becoming a heritage site,’ Abhisit said.
UNESCO will reportedly send a representative to Bangkok and Phnom Penh soon to hear both sides of the row over the 11th-century Hindu temple – called Preah Vihear by the Cambodians and Phra Viharn by the Thais – which broke out into a border clash on February 4-7 that claimed at least 10 lives.
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