Overview
- Defense ministers signed a joint statement at the 3rd Special General Border Committee meeting at the Prom-Pak Kard checkpoint, with ASEAN observers present, committing to implement a ceasefire.
- The meeting was co-chaired by Cambodia’s Tea Seiha and Thailand’s Nattaphon Narkphanit, who reaffirmed pledges to restore stability along the frontier.
- Hours before the deal, Cambodia said Thai F-16s dropped about 40 bombs near Chok Chey in Banteay Meanchey; Thailand confirmed strikes and said it targeted fortified positions to protect Sa Kaeo.
- Thailand condemned what it says is Cambodia’s use of PMN-2 anti-personnel mines near the Ta Kwai temple area in Surin and called for joint humanitarian demining under the Ottawa Convention.
- Authorities and media reports this month cite at least 96 deaths in total and displacement of up to about one million people as the neighbors trade blame over the relapse into fighting.