Phumtham plays down border dispute

Minister says conversations with Cambodia will help to resolve the conflict over structure in” no man’s land” and will be resolved.

Talk of a regional discord between Thailand and Cambodia has been minimized by deputy prime minister Phumtham Wechayachai, who has urged all parties to restrain.

Mr. Phumtham, who is also the defense minister, was responding to a recent video showing the most recent slight upheaval on the border. &nbsp,

After their Vietnamese counterparts were discovered to have constructed a composition in an area regarded as a no man’s land, the video, which was allegedly filmed last Thursday, shows a number of Thai troops having a heated discussion with them. The debate centers near Banteay Meanchey in Cambodia, in the Sa Kaeo state of Thailand’s Ta Phraya area.

A spokesman for the Royal Thai Army, Maj. Gen. Winthai Suvaree, claimed Ta Phraya Taskforce warriors had instructed the Cambodians to take down the structure and had written a “protest” against their behavior on Monday.

Mr. Phumtham claimed that negotiations were taking place between Thailand and Cambodia, and that both countries relied on various boundary lines.

We view conversations as quiet means of communication. Communication and caution are the best course of action for problematic locations, he said, as opposed to destroying the problem.

We don’t want to see hostilities or hostilities. We want the administrations of both nations to keep communicating and the negotiations to remain.

Mr. Phumtham questioned whether Vietnamese actions were provocative, noting that Thailand only wants to defend its independence. He urged all factors to be patient to prevent defeat. &nbsp,

We can write a letter of protest and escalate communication via all means to reach a lawsuit in every debate. Any issue resolutions are ready to get dropped on the negotiating table to stop it from worsening, he said.

Cambodia and Thailand frequently have border disputes, but recent news of them frequently stokes up cooked online debates using incendiary language.

A group of Thai people recently sung a nationalist track at Prasat Ta Muean Thom, an old Khmer church close to the Thai-Cambodian borders in Surin, on February 13.

Before Thai soldiers arrived, they were quickly confronted by cooler heads. However, the blog was shut down for three months so that the excitement wouldn’t last.