Saturday, May 28, 2011

Talks over temple hit dead end

Abhisit claims Unesco supports Thai stance

Suwit: Led delegation at Paris meeting

28/05/2011
Bangkok Post

Thailand and Cambodia have failed to reach agreement over Cambodia's world heritage site management plan for the 4.6-square-kilometre disputed area around Preah Vihear temple.

The countries met twice for talks on Wednesday and Thursday at a special meeting organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in Paris but the talks failed to yield results.

Thailand was able to convince Unesco to postpone consideration by Unesco's World Heritage Committee (WHC) of the issue during the WHC meeting on June 19-29 until border demarcation work is completed. However, it failed to do the same with Cambodia.

Cambodia still insists on its right to table the management plan at the meeting.

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