{"id":38290,"date":"2025-12-23T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38290"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:31:17","slug":"cambodia-asks-thailand-to-move-border-talks-to-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cambodia-asks-thailand-to-move-border-talks-to-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia asks Thailand to move border talks to Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>PHNOM PENH (AFP) : Cambodia&#8217;s defence ministry has asked Thailand to hold bilateral talks in the neutral venue of Kuala Lumpur, according to a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, with the countries set to negotiate truce terms after two weeks of deadly border clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Renewed fighting this month, which shattered a previous truce, has killed at least 23 people in Thailand and 21 in Cambodia, and displaced more than 900,000 on both sides, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow on Monday announced a parley with Cambodia after a meeting in the Malaysian capital with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Cambodia is also a member.<\/p>\n<p>Sihasak told reporters the discussion would be held Wednesday in Thailand&#8217;s Chanthaburi within the framework of an existing bilateral border committee.<\/p>\n<p>But in a letter dated Monday to his Thai counterpart Nattaphon Narkphanit, Cambodia&#8217;s defence minister Tea Seiha requested the meeting be held in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a security reason due to the ongoing fighting along the border, this meeting should be held in a safe and neutral venue,&#8221; Tea Seiha wrote in the letter, which AFP obtained on Tuesday and confirmed with the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia, the chair of the ASEAN regional bloc, had agreed to host the talks in its capital, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia said Thailand launched air strikes on its territory on Monday, shortly after Bangkok announced the two nations had agreed to hold the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodian defence ministry spokeswoman Maly Socheata told reporters that combat along the border was ongoing Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said in a statement that Thai forces shelled the Cambodian border city of Poipet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH (AFP) : Cambodia&#8217;s defence ministry has asked Thailand to hold bilateral talks in the neutral venue of Kuala Lumpur, according to a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, with the countries set to negotiate truce terms after two weeks of deadly border clashes. Renewed fighting this month, which shattered a previous truce, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38290","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\/38290"}],"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=38290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38292,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38290\/revisions\/38292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}