Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional ceasefire’
Thailand and Cambodia accepted the “emergency and unconditional ceasefire” after killing at least 33 people after a five -day fight on the borders and displaced tens of thousands of people.
“This is a vital step for an increase and peace and security restoration,” surrounded by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, surrounded by Thai and Cambodian colleagues. He said.
Thailand initially rejected the mediation offer, but said US President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations would not continue until the “fight stop”.
After the murder of a Cambodian soldier in the clash, tensions on a century -old border dispute increased in May.
Thailand brought restrictions to Cambodia by landing citizens and tourists to Cambodia, while Cambodian fruits banned some imports from Thailand, including power and internet services. Local Cambodian sales points reported that hundreds of thousands of workers from Thailand have returned since May.
The situation rose last week after a Thai soldier lost his leg during a land mine explosion. Thailand closed some of the border crossings with Cambodia, expelled his ambassadors and remembered on his own.
Both sides changed gunfire at the beginning of last Thursday, each claimed that the other triggered the conflict.
According to Thailand’s army, most of the losses on the Thai side were civilians in the villages shot by Rockets. Cambodia said 13 people have been killed so far, including eight civilians.
Even if peace talks continued in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, shells and rockets continued to descend to both countries.
Anwar, Malaysia and Regional Block, South East Asian Nations Union or other members of ASEAN are ready to help monitor the ceasefire, he said.
Both sides will have to accept to accept a kind of independent monitoring in order to prevent further conflicts, which are now largely strengthened, returning from the border.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet described it as a very good meeting he hoped to stop the war immediately. Cambodia has been suppressing for the ceasefire since Friday, as their more powers have been returned by the Thai army.
Thailand PM Acting Phumtham Wechayachai spoke briefly and promised to honor the ceasefire.
The situation, which can be accessed by only two armies on the front front, is still uncertain.
Thailand claims to have taken control of the hills controlled by a series of Cambodia and hired a continuous artillery dam from a much larger heavy weapon arsenal and hit the Cambodian positions from the air.
The Thai government was reluctant to participate in peace talks, saying that a ceasefire could only follow “sincere intentions” from Cambodia with a dialogue between the two countries, which meant an end to the rocket dams that killed at least 14 Thai civilians.
While the Malaysian talks were mediating, the loan probably belongs to Washington and President Trump. On Saturday night, the ultimatum threatens to stop all negotiations on reducing US tariffs unless the two countries agreed to stop fighting, and almost certainly forced them to accept a ceasefire.
Both are largely dependent on exports to the United States, and both face a 36% tariff in exports from the agreement. This would put its manufacturers into a major disadvantage in neighboring countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia to reduce their tariffs to 20% or less.
However, considering that there is deep insecurity between the two armies and that many strong nationalist emotions are mixed, it will be difficult to maintain the ceasefire.
Thailand has become a victim with the sudden use of the multiple rocket launcher, which caused most of the civilian casualties on Thursday and significantly increased the small -scale conflicts among its troops.
The old evacuations, which were near the Thai border living with bombings during the Cambodian Civil War of the 1980s, told the BBC to the BBC last week.
The Thai army said on Sunday that approximately 140,000 civilians were evacuated to shelters in seven provinces.
In Cambodia, where the press was seriously restricted, pro -state Khmer Times quoted a defense ministry spokesman who said that approximately 135,000 people were moved along the border.
A 75 -year -old Cambodian woman who was released to a shelter, said she still doesn’t feel safe because she could hear that Thai drones fly over the tents early on Monday.
He said he wanted to “see the war this evening to stop.”
