By Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation
Cambodia insists it will attend the meeting of the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) late this week only on the condition that it is hosted by Asean chair Indonesia, not by Thailand.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong wrote to remind his Thai counterpart Kasit Piromya on Monday that the JBC meeting was proposed by Indonesia and is being held in that country, in the city of Bogor.
Who would host the JBC meeting became an issue when Kasit wrote to Hor Namhong last Friday that Thailand as the host of the fifth Thailand-Cambodia JBC meeting was ready to convene the meeting on April 7-8 in Bogor.
The JBC is a bilateral mechanism to handle demarcation of the land boundary between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries have taken turns hosting the meeting from time to time since its establishment in 2000.
The previous meeting was held in Phnom Penh in April 2009, and Thailand was supposed to host the next meeting in this country.
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