Radio Australia News
Indonesia are trying to broker a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand, at a two-day bilateral meeting in the Indonesian town of Bogor.
Senior officials from Cambodia and Thailand are discussing their border dispute at a meeting being mediated by the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, at the Bogor Presidential Palace.
Indonesia, as the current head of ASEAN, were asked by the United Nations Security Council to help mediate the dispute.
Mr Natalegawa says the main message from the meeting is that diplomacy is back on track, as opposed to military conflict.
The dispute is over rival claims to 4.6 square kilometres of land around Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple on the border.
Since the 900-year-old Khmer temple was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2008, several rounds of border clashes have occurred.
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