10/05/2011
Wassana Nanuam and AGENCIES
Bangkok Post
JAKARTA : The foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand have agreed on a deal via a so-called “package solution ” to allow the deployment of Indonesian monitors to their disputed border area.
Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong met yesterday to try to iron out their differences after the two countries’ prime ministers Abhisit Vejjajiva and Hun Sen failed to reach an agreement during talks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit on Sunday.
“The achievement this afternoon exceeded my expectations,” said Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa in the wake of the talks that he mediated.
“I’m not underestimating the scale of the problem, but they have overcome their mutually exclusive demands,” he said.
Hor Namhong said Cambodia and Thailand had agreed to a “package solution” on sending observers to the disputed area, the Kyodo News agency reported.
He said the solution was to combine six points in one, that is, both sides would have to first exchange letters of acceptance on the terms of reference for the Indonesian Observer Team (IOT), and at the same time announce the dates of the meetings of the General Border Committee (GBC) and the Joint Border Commission (JBC) of the two countries.
Points three and four are to send a survey team to the disputed area and convene meetings of the GBC and JBC with five days, he said.
Points five and six are to send the full assignment of the IOT and follow up on the results of GBC and JBC meetings within 10 days.
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