By Sinfah Tunsarawuth
BANGKOK, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) — Thailand should accept a third- party mediation to help solve its border dispute with Cambodia as bilateral talks seemed to have failed to make any progress, a key academic has said.
“It has been proved that bilateral negotiation between the two countries doesn’t work,” Akkharaphong Khamkhun, who teaches Southeast Asian affairs at the Thammasat University, told Xinhua News Agency in an interview.
Akkharaphong said he saw Monday’s meeting at the United Nations Security Council in New York on the dispute, which has recently raised global concern with the eruption of a series of deadly crossfire between Thai and Cambodian soldiers across the border, as already an intervention by a third party.
“For Thailand, I don’t see any reason that we have to be scared of a third-party (mediation),” he said.
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