Trump calls leaders, uses trade threat to push for peace

Both Thailand and Cambodia face a 36 percent upright tariff in exports to the United States as part of Trump’s trade war. The US is the largest export customer in Thailand. At the beginning of this week, Thailand said it was close to an agreement with the US in exchange for allowing more market access to the US.

Thailand and Cambodia have been confronted since a short conflict since the killing of a Cambodian soldier in late May. The troops on both sides of the border were strengthened in the midst of a complete diplomatic crisis that brought the fragile coalition government of Thailand to the brink of collapse.

On Thursday, tensions exploded about eight places along the border where sovereignty has been uncertain for more than a century.

The small gun fire rose to the heavy bombardment of military targets on both sides, and Thailand said that Cambodian rockets hit civilian areas, including a hospital. Phnom Penh said a Thai F-16 jet bombed a close way. Famous Preah Vihear Temple.

At least 19 people – mostly civilians – were killed in Thailand, Cambodia said in a statement on Saturday, died next to 12 people and brought 13 wages, he said.

Both sides now sought diplomatic support to end the conflict, saying that they were now acting in defense and calling the other to stop the fight and start negotiations.

The UN Ambassador of Thailand, Cambodia, called by Cambodia and held behind the closed doors in New York on Friday at an emergency meeting of the Security Council, the soldiers were wounded twice since mid -July by land mines in Thailand and Cambodia started attacks on Thursday morning, he said. Cambodia said that land mines are the residues of previous conflicts.

Cherdchai Chaiveaivid calls on the media, “Thailand Cambodia calls for almost all hostilities and aggression actions and aggression actions and to continue dialogue in good faith,” he said.

Cambodia strongly rejected the allegations. The Ministry of Defense said that Thailand launched a “deliberate, unreasonable and illegal military attack ve on Thursday, and now mobilizing troops and military equipment at the border.

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“This deliberate military preparations reveal the intention of expanding Thailand’s aggression and violating the sovereignty of Cambodia.” He said.

Cambodia’s Ambassador of UN Chhea Keo, after the Security Council meeting, told journalists, said that his country “unconditionally wants firearms immediately, and at the same time calling for a peaceful solution to the dispute”.

He asked how Cambodia asked how a small country where a small country, where it attacked Thailand and has no air force, could attack a much larger country with an army and three times its size.

Bangkok reiterated that he wanted to solve the dispute bilaterally and said to the Security Council, “Cambodia has avoided deliberate dialogue, and instead trying to internationalization to serve its political goals”.

Cambodia also called anger in Thailand’s cluster ammunition and called violations of international law.

However, the Thai army said that the country is not a party to the cluster ammunition Convention, but that it was followed by the principle of proportionality to çok increasing its explosive destruction capabilities only against military targets ”.

The Security Council did not make a statement, but a diplomat said that all 15 members called to increase the parties, show restriction and resolve the dispute peacefully.

The Council also called on the regional bloc, which is known as ASEAN to help solve the border fight, speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was special.

Malaysia, which chaired the 10 nations, including both countries, asked for an end to hostility and offered to mediate.

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Australia and England, Buriram, Si Sa Ket, Surin and Ubon Ratchathani states, including the border regions of Cambodia and Thailand, including travel consultants published travel consultants.

As the fight intensified, the peasants on both sides were caught on cross -fire and many of them caused them to escape.

Approximately 600 people took refuge in a gym at a university in Surin, 80 kilometers from the border. The evacuators sat in groups, mats and blankets and lined up for food and drinks.

Seamstress Pornan Sooksai was accompanied by four cats in two fabric carriers. When the bombing began on Thursday, he said he was wasting laundry in his house near the Temple of Thom Thom.

“I just heard, explosion, explosion. Cages, clothes and everything we’ve already prepared, so we carried our belongings to the car. I was scared, I was scared,” he remembered.

Another evacuation, Rattana Meink, said that he lived in the 2011 conflicts between the two countries, but defined this exacerbation as worse.

“Children, old people were shot from blue,” he said. “I never thought that this would be violent.”

Hotel worker Chianuwat Thalalai said in the Kantharalak region of Sisaken province, Thailand, at the border near some conflicts.

“Almost everyone is gone, a almost deserted city,” he said to Reuters 31 -year -old. “My hotel is still open to those who are still closer to the border area that needs a place to stay.”

In the opposite of the Cambodian border, the villages at the foot of the province of Oddar Aranchey were largely abandoned. The houses were locked while chickens and dogs wandered outside.

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Some peasants previously dug holes to create temporary underground shelters, covered with wooden, tarpaulin and zinc layers to protect themselves from the bombardment. Families with children, although several people refused to leave, it was seen that they pack their belongings on homemade tractors to evacuate.

A distant Buddhist temple surrounded by rice fields contains hundreds of evacuated peasants. While the children were running, women were listened to in hammocks and some cradle babies. Temporary plastic tents were set up under the trees.

74 -year -old Veng Chin begged with both governments to negotiate an agreement with both governments to “go back to my house and work on the farm”.

Thailand and Cambodia have been withdrawn for decades along the 817 -kilometer land borders, the ownership of the old Hindu temples and the limitation line at the center of the 11th century Preah Vihear’s center of disputes.