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Cambodia to build wall at border areas with Thailand
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-24 19:50 The two foreign ministers also agreed to recommend to their governments that the next meeting of legal experts and the Thai- Cambodian JBC be convened in early October 2008 to discuss the issues related to the survey and demarcation of the relevant sectors under the term of reference and master plan of JBC. On July 15, Thai troops went into the border area to fetch three trespassers who had intended to claim Thai sovereignty over the Preah Vihear Temple. However, the troops stationed there ever since, thus triggering the military standoff and propelling both sides' military personnel to grow over a thousand in the border areas. During the time, Thai troops respectively entered the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara Pagoda, which is constructed on the only way leading to the Preah Vihear Temple, as well as the Tamone Toch and Tamone Thom temples in neighboring Otdar Meanchey province of Cambodia. On August 16, most of the troops at the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara Pagoda and within the surrounding area of the Preah Vihear Temple were evacuated according to both sides' agreement. The Preah Vihear Temple straddles the Cambodian-Thai border atop the Dangrek Mountain and was listed as a World Heritage Site on July 7 by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee. In 1962, the International Court of Justice decided that the 11- century temple and the land around belong to Cambodia, which rankled the Thais and has led to continuous disputes. |
