Thailand, Cambodia have agreed to renew ceasefire after border clashes, Trump says
Trump said that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to “cease all shooting effective this (Friday) evening, and go back to the original peace accord."
United States President Donald Trump on Friday said Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to renew their ceasefire, days after deadly border clashes had threatened to undo the truce between the two nations.
The Trump-led administration had helped broker a ceasefire between both sides earlier this year.
Trump announced the decision by both countries to return to the original ceasefire agreement in a post on Truth Social. Trump said that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to “cease all shooting effective this (Friday) evening, and go back to the original peace accord made with me, and them, with the help of the Great Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim.”
The US President said he had held conversations with Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet earlier in the day.
Trump, while calling the border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia “unfortunate”, called it his “honour” to work with Anutin and Hun in resolving the dispute. “It is my Honor to work with Anutin and Hun in resolving what could have evolved into a major War between two otherwise wonderful and prosperous Countries!” he said. He further thanked Malaysian PM Ibrahim “for his assistance.”
The original ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia had been brokered earlier this year in July with mediation from Trump and Malaysia. Trump had threatened to withhold trade privileges to the two nations, The Associated Press reported. The truce was then formalised in October at a regional meeting in Malaysia, also attended by Trump.
In the border fighting which restarted this week after a five-day clash in July, both Thailand and Cambodia had been firing rockets and artillery at several points along their disputed 817-km (508-mile) border, Reuters news agency reported. The clashes killed 20 people, wounding more than 260 others, Reuters reported citing tallies by both countries.
