March 25, 2011
Ismira Lutfia & Camelia Pasandaran
AFP
The Foreign Ministry has not received any formal notification from Thailand that it rejects an Asean plan to send Indonesian observers to the disputed Thai-Cambodia border, a spokesman said on Thursday.
“We have not received a formal communication from our counterpart, the Thai Foreign Ministry, on the matter,” ministry spokesman Michael Tene told the Jakarta Globe.
Thailand’s army chief, General Prayut Chan-O-Cha, said on Wednesday that the observers were not wanted in the disputed area near an 11th-century temple because it was too dangerous and would only complicate matters.
Prayut said the Thai defense ministry, armed forces and military commanders rejected the idea of outside monitors, but conceded it was up to the government to decide.
A Thai government spokesman denied, however, that there had been any change in Bangkok’s position, and said a joint border committee would be convened to iron out the details of the observers’ mission.
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