JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — The foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand agreed to allow the deployment of Indonesian monitors to their disputed border area, the Bangkok Post reported Monday.
Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong met 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 agreement must still be approved by both leaders, however.
“The achievement this afternoon exceeded my expectations,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said after mediating the talks. “I’m not underestimating the scale of the problem, but they have overcome their mutually exclusive demands.”
The two sides had signed up to Indonesia’s proposal to send observers to monitor a ceasefire on their common border on February 22 at the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, however, insisted Cambodian troops leave the 4.6-square-kilometer disputed border area before Indonesian observers arrive.
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