Asia-Pacific

Cambodia urges border peace with Thailand

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-06-13 15:38

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday called for cooperation with Thailand to settle the border dispute peacefully.

During a meeting with new Thai ambassador to Cambodia Sompong Sanguanbun, Hun Sen said that good cooperation and will are very essential to solve the border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, the Prime Minister's spokesman Eang Sophalleth told reporters after the meeting.

"We have to cooperate each other in the framework of ASEAN in order to fulfill the ASEAN community by 2015," Eang Sophalleth quoted the premier as saying.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has implemented the roadmap in 2009 toward the realization of the ASEAN economic, political-security, and socio-cultural communities by 2015.

"Cambodia still has optimism to achieve the ASEAN goal because the relations between Cambodia and Thailand on tourism, trade, investment and other fields are still going on," he added.

Meanwhile, the ambassador pledged to cooperate with the government of Cambodia in order to restore relations and cooperation between the two nations.