Despite the pressing of the US still shots. Tomorrow leader summit
Fourth day of clashes on the border, with explosions and shots near the disputed temples, between Thailand and Cambogia, with 34 ascertained deaths and over 200 thousand displaced people, despite the President of the United States Donald Trump continues to work for possible peace, with one eye to the trade opportunities and the other to its coveted role of mediator in the conflicts around the world. But there is a glimmer of peace: the leaders of the two countries met for Monday in Malaysia, who immediately proposed himself as a mediator.
The stick and carrot of the American president, the threat of exorbitant duties on the one hand, on the other prospects of flourishing trade, have however had their effect if both sides have declared themselves ready to discuss a ceased fire, despite the re -ignited of a conflict that has repeatedly bloody the borders of the two neighboring countries of the Southeast Asia, destinations of millions of foreign tourists.
In the worst clash of the last few years, artillery shots have been exploded in a short distance from two ancient temples for a long time in the border region between northern Cambodia and Sudoriental Thailand, with the two leaders who accused each other from having undermined peace efforts. Bangkok accused Phnom Penh of shooting bullets against hospitals and civil homes in the province of Surin.
Cambodia denies, and accuses the rival of having used cluster ammunition. The secretary of state Rubio weaves the ranks of a not easy agreement and to urge peace between the two countries, after the UN secretary, was also Pope Leo XIV, who prayed to Angelus for children and displaced families.
Ansa agency Trump: ‘I asked Cambogia to stop the war’ – News – Ansa.it ‘I also spoke with the interim prime minister of Thailand, they want an immediate ceased the fire’ (ANSA) On Monday it will be seen if the face to face between the interim premier of Thailand, Phumham Wechayachii, and the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Manet, will treasure the appeals and international pressing. The conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, a dispute on various points of a border 800 kilometers long, dates back to the time of the French colonies of the first 1900s and focuses on the so -called emerald triangle, on the border between Thailand, Cambogia and Laos.
The main object of the dispute, the Hindu temple of Preah Vihear of the 9th century, disputed for decades and whose sovereignty has been assigned since 1962 to Cambodia by a sentence of the International Court of Justice of Hague and since 2008 UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tension was rebuilt last May when an armed clash on the border caused the death of a Cambodian soldier and broke out on Wednesday following the injury of a Thai soldier skipped on a mine.
From Thursday the word has gone to arms, despite China’s appeals, USA, EU and Malaysia, president of the Asean shift, who fear an enlargement of the conflict in the region. A strong nationalism of both countries also weigh on everything, with deep cultural and historical differences, exacerbated in recent weeks of internal political crises. It remains to be seen if the mirage of the dollars walled by Trump from the edge of a golf course in Scotland is able to balance all this.
