Published: 14:17, June 4, 2025
Cambodia, Thailand to hold talks over border next week
By Xinhua
This handout picture taken and released on May 29, 2025 by the Royal Thai Army shows the Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army (RTA) General Pana Klaewplodthuk (center right) and the Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army General Mao Sophan (center left) sitting during a meeting at the Chong Chom border crossing in Thailand's Surin province. Thailand's military said it had agreed to ease border tensions with Cambodia after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a frontier clash. (PHOTO / AFP)

PHNOM PENH - A Cambodia-Thailand Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) meeting will be convened in Phnom Penh on June 14 to talk over border issues, the Cambodian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

"Cambodia is committed to resolving border issues peacefully, through technical mechanisms and in accordance with international law," spokesperson for the ministry Chum Sounry said in a text message sent to the media by Telegram.

He said the meeting will focus on the area where a recent incident occurred.

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The spokesperson said that with a firm commitment to defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Cambodia stands resolute on transforming its borders with neighboring countries into zones of peace, friendship, cooperation, and development for the benefit of the respective countries and peoples.

The meeting was scheduled after soldiers of both countries briefly exchanged gunfire at the Emerald Triangle on May 28, resulting in the death of a Cambodian soldier.

The Emerald Triangle is an area sharing the border among Cambodia, Thailand and Laos.

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Sunday that during the upcoming JBC meeting, Cambodia will invite Thailand to take the border issues concerning the Emerald Triangle area, Ta Moan Thom Temple, Ta Moan Toch Temple, and Ta Krabey Temple to the UN's International Court of Justice.