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Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire, Malaysian prime minister says Thailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire
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Neighbouring countries accept ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire after worst fighting in a decade Malaysian PM says countries have reached ‘common understanding’ to halt the worst fighting in a decade
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire, the Malaysian prime minister has announced after holding peace talks. Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire after talks in Malaysia that aimed to halt the worst fighting between the neighbouring countries in more than a decade.
Anwar Ibrahim, who hosted leaders from both countries, said the ceasefire will start at midnight local time on Monday. The Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, who hosted leaders from both countries, said the two sides had reached a “common understanding”, including an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” from midnight local time on Monday.
“Both Cambodia and Thailand reached a common understanding,” Ibrahim said after mediation talks in Malaysia. “This is a vital first step towards de-escalation and the restoration of peace and security,” he said.
At least 35 people have been killed and more than 270,000 displaced by the worst fighting in over a decade between the neighbouring countries. Clashes continued early on Monday, just hours before negotiations were due to begin. At least 35 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced by fighting that erupted on the countries’ shared border on Thursday.
The ambassadors to Malaysia of the US and China were also present at the meeting in Malaysia’s administrative capital of Putrajaya. It is being hosted at the residence of Ibrahim, the chair of the regional bloc Asean. The peace negotiations took place less than 48 hours after Donald Trump announced he had called the two countries’ leaders, warning that trade negotiations would be paused until the fighting stopped. Thailand and Cambodia face the prospect of a 36% US tariff from 1 August.
More details soon … The talks were held in Malaysia, which is the current chair of the regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and were attended by officials from the US and China.
The Cambodian prime minister, Hun Manet, told the media he hoped and “confidently” believed that the outcome of the meeting would “provide a lot of opportunities”, for hundreds of thousands of people to return to their homes, for the two countries to stop fighting and to rebuild trust and cooperation.
“Today we had a very good meeting and very good results that hope to stop immediately the fighting that has caused many lives [to be] lost, injuries and also caused a lot of displacement of people,” he said.
Thailand’s acting prime minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, said the agreement “reflects Thailand’s desire for a peaceful resolution”, adding that his country had agreed to a ceasefire that would “be carried out successfully in good faith by both sides”.
Both leaders thanked Anwar, the US and China, with Hun Manet thanking Trump for his “decisive mediation” on Saturday.
Hun Manet said earlier that the meeting had been “co-organised by the United States and with participation of China”. China has strong economic links to Thailand and Cambodia and is a close ally of the latter.
Under Monday’s agreement, Anwar said regional commanders from the Thai and Cambodian military would meet at 7am on Tuesday, and that a meeting would also be held on 4 August by the general border committee, a body established by Thailand and Cambodia to facilitate negotiations over their shared border.
Thailand and Cambodia also agreed to resume direct communications between their prime ministers, foreign ministers and defence ministers, Anwar said.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply over recent months.
Thailand and Cambodia have a long-running border dispute that dates back to disagreements over colonial-era maps, but the most recent tensions began in May when troops briefly exchanged fire in a contested area, killing a Cambodian soldier. This led to retaliatory measures by both sides.
Last week, the two countries recalled their ambassadors, downgrading diplomatic relations. On Thursday, clashes erupted along the border, with the two sides trading rocket and artillery fire, and airstrikes.
The crisis has been worsened by a fallout between Hun Sen, a former leader of Cambodia and the father of Hun Manet, and Thaksin Shinawatra, a former Thai leader and the father of the Thai prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Paetongtarn was suspended from office this month after Hun Sen leaked a recording of a controversial phone call he had held with her, underlining the extent of the feud between Hun Sen and Thaksin Shinawatra, who were once close friends.
Tita Sanglee, an associate fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, said it was too early to tell if the ceasefire would hold, and that it seemed “very fragile and susceptible to disruption”. She added: “Underlying tensions are still very high. Rebuilding trust will take more than time.”