{"id":37749,"date":"2025-12-16T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37749"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:27:41","slug":"thailand-says-cambodia-must-announce-ceasefire-first-to-stop-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/thailand-says-cambodia-must-announce-ceasefire-first-to-stop-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand says Cambodia must announce ceasefire &#8216;first&#8217; to stop fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Thailand said Tuesday that Cambodia must be first to announce a truce to halt fighting between the two nations after more than a week of deadly clashes in a reignited border conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the aggressor onto Thai territory, Cambodia must announce the ceasefire first,&#8221; Thai foreign ministry spokeswoman Maratee Nalita Andamo told reporters in Bangkok, adding that Cambodia must also cooperate in de-mining efforts at the border &#8220;sincerely&#8221;.<br \/>\nRenewed fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours this month has killed at least 32 people, including soldiers and civilians, and displaced around 800,000, officials said.<br \/>\nEach side has blamed the other for instigating the clashes, claiming self-defence and trading accusations of attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia did not immediately respond to Thailand&#8217;s statement.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump, who intervened in the border conflict earlier this year, last week claimed the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire beginning Saturday night.<br \/>\nCambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said his country supported the ceasefire initiative of Malaysia, chair of the ASEAN regional bloc, with Washington&#8217;s participation.<\/p>\n<p>But fighting has continued daily since December 7, and Bangkok has denied Trump&#8217;s claim of a truce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand said Tuesday that Cambodia must be first to announce a truce to halt fighting between the two nations after more than a week of deadly clashes in a reignited border conflict. &#8220;As the aggressor onto Thai territory, Cambodia must announce the ceasefire first,&#8221; Thai foreign ministry spokeswoman Maratee Nalita Andamo told reporters in Bangkok, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37751,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749\/revisions\/37751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}