Thailand Says Open to Dialogue with Cambodia to End Conflict

Southeast Asian neighbors gave heavy artillery fire for a third day on Saturday as a border conflict with more than 150,000 displays from their homes, which killed at least 33 people and spread to the borders.

“Thailand accepts in principle to have a ceasefire,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. He said.

This said that US President Donald Trump spoke with Cambodian leader Hun Manet and Thailand acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, and the two sides agreed to meet a ceasefire and quickly work.

Thailand confirmed a telephone conversation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Trump and Phumtham and stressed that he wanted to see sincere intentions by Thailand Cambodia “about a possible ceasefire.

Phumtham asked Trump to convey Trump to the Cambodian side that he wanted to create a dual dialogue as soon as possible to bring measures and procedures for the final peaceful solution of the ceasefire and conflict.

Hours ago, clashes exploded in the coastal areas of the countries where they met in the Gulf of Thailand, southwest of the main facades southwest of the main facades, and drowned with explosions on Saturday afternoon.

76 -year -old Samlee Sornchai, AFP, Thailand Town Kantarom for the evacuation of a temple shelter, after leaving the farm near the farm carrying the farm, “it sounds like I’m running away from a war zone,” he said.

A long -standing border dispute entered the war with jets, tanks and land troops this week.

At the beginning, before spreading along the rural border area, the wild forests and locals flared up on the long -term ancient temple areas marked with a back of a hills surrounded by rubber and rice farm farm.

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While both sides expressed clarity to the ceasefire, they accused each other of weakening their cease -fire efforts.

The Cambodian Ministry of Defense said that since Thursday, 71 people, including eight civilians and five soldiers, have been killed.

The Thai officials say that in both countries, 13 civilians and seven soldiers, who were higher in the last major round of the war between 2008 and 2011, died with them.

Both sides reported a conflict of a coastline on Saturday, and accused the Cambodian Thai forces of firing “five heavy artillery shells” to Solcat province, which limited Thailand’s Tays province of Thailand.

The conflict forced more than 138,000 people to evacuate from the border regions of Thailand and last more than 35,000 from their homes in Cambodia.

After the Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Friday, Cambodia’s Ambassador of UN Chhea Keo said that his country wanted a peaceful solution of the “cease -fire” and the dispute.

The UN chief Antonio Guterres was deeply worried about armed conflicts, and on Saturday, he called on “immediately to accept a cease -fire” and to find a permanent solution.

“Secretary -general, the secretary, condemns the loss of tragic and unnecessary life, injury against civilians and damaging the infrastructure on both sides,” said Farhan Haq. He said.

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Both sides blamed the other for shooting before.

In addition, Cambodia accused Thai forces of using cluster ammunition, while Thailand accused Cambodia of targeting civil infrastructure, including a hospital with shells.

The fight points to a dramatic rise in a long-lasting disagreement between the popular destinations for the 800-kilometer 800 kilometers of 800 kilometers where dozens of kilometers are objected.

In 2013, a UN court has solved the issue for more than ten years, but the current crisis exploded in May when a Cambodian troops were killed in the conflict of the border.

Last month, when Cambodia’s influential former leader Hun Sen published a call record that focused on the queue with Thailand’s prime minister Paetongarn Shinawatra.

Paetongarn triggered a political crisis in Thailand because he was accused of not standing enough for Thailand and criticizing his own army.

He was dismissed by the court order.