The Cambodia and Thailand rulers They were willing to dialogue to put an end to mortal border shocks, after an intervention by US President Donald Trump, but the Artillery shots resumed Sunday for the fourth consecutive day.
AFP journalists in the Cambodian town of Samraong, about 20 km from the conflict zone, heard the rumble of the artillery at dawn on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the Cambodian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the clashes began about two temples played around 04h50 on Sunday (21h50 GMT on Saturday), in a conflict that has left 33 dead and more than 170,000 displaced in the border area.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said Sunday that Your country is willing to discuss a high fire with Thailand based on Trump’s proposal.
Manet said that the American proposal of truce “is good news for the soldiers and the people of the two countries,” and commissioned its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prak Sokhonn, to talk with the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to coordinate with the Thai.
“Thailand accepts in principle to have a stop the fire”, He previously indicated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in X.
The ads were given after Trump, published that the two parties had agreed to gather and “quickly” reach a ceasefire.
Trump, visiting Scotland, confirmed to have talked with the rulers of the two countries of Southeast Asia.
The Thai Foreign Ministry indicated that the interim prime minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, asked Trump “to transmit to the Cambodian part that Thailand wants to call a bilateral dialogue as soon as possible to present measures and procedures for the high fire and the eventual peaceful resolution of the conflict.”
A territorial dispute dating from several decades derived on Thursday In intense clashes with deployment of combat aircraft, artillery, tanks and infantry, which generated international concern and led to the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Cambodia, the clashes have left 13 dead – so civilians and five soldiers – and 71 injured.
In Thailand, the army reported 20 dead, including six soldiers.
“Finish the fighting”
The fighting caused the evacuation of more than 138,000 people of Thai border regions and more than 35,000 of the Cambodian side.
“The relations used to be good, we were as brothers,” said Sai Boonrod, 56, one of hundreds of Thai who took refuge in a temple in the eastern town of Kanthararom after evacuating its village.
“I just want the fighting to end so that we can be as brothers again,” he told AFP.
Cambodia asked “a high immediate fire [e] unconditional “during the closed door of the UN Security Council in New York.
“We also call for a peaceful dispute solution,” said the Cambodian ambassador to the United Nations, Chhea Keo, after the meeting.
The Thai interim ruling Phumtham warned Friday that “if the situation worsens could lead to a war.”
Each side accuses the other of having triggered first. Thailand states that Cambodia He attacked civil infrastructure, including a hospital and a gas station achieved by a rocket.
According to Cambodia, the Thai forces used cluster bombs.
In the UN, the Cambodian representative questioned Thailand’s statement that his country, smaller and less militarily developed, began the clashes.
These fights represent a dramatic escalation in an old dispute between these two neighbors they share 800 kilometers of border and attract millions of foreign tourists every year.
Dozens of kilometers on that border dotted with ancient temples continue in dispute. Between 2008 and 2011 there were clashes that left 28 dead and tens of thousands of displaced.
A decision in favor of Cambodia of the UN International Court of Justice in 2013 settled that crisis for more than a decade, but the tension emerged again in May with the death of a Cambodian soldier in a shooting in the played border area.
