Cambodia, Thailand Agree to Ceasefire Monitors After Clashes
Thai and Cambodian delegates ahead of the Extraordinary General Border Committee to discuss the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, in Kuala Lumpur ,on Aug. 7.
Photographer: Hasnoor Hussain/AFP/Getty ImagesCambodia and Thailand agreed to maintain a ceasefire and allow neutral monitors, as the US cited a “high level of distrust” between the Southeast Asian neighbors after their deadliest border clashes in decades.
A meeting of senior security officials from the two nations held in Kuala Lumpur approved a set of measures to strictly enforce the truce and ease border tensions, including ceasefire monitoring by an interim team of Asean defense attaches stationed in Bangkok and Phnom Penh. The teams would be led by Malaysian attaches.