DPA
‘The [Thai] government, the foreign minister, says one thing while the [Thai] military says another thing.
‘We don’t know who we can trust, who to deal with. We don’t know who really has the right to negotiate.’
Jakarta – Cambodia on Saturday expressed frustration over conflicting messages from Thailand on Indonesia’s role as mediator in a border dispute between the two nations.
Thai and Cambodian foreign ministers agreed in February to accept Indonesian observers stationed along their common border to monitor a ceasefire in a dispute over land surrounding an 11th-century Hindu temple.
But Thailand’s military insisted the issue be resolved bilaterally and rejected the involvement of Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
‘We can’t understand,’ Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said in Jakarta. ‘If Thailand wishes really to have a ceasefire on the border, why should they hesitate to receive Indonesian observers?‘
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