Overview
- The truce takes effect at 12:00 noon local time on Dec 27 and applies to all weapons across all areas.
- Terms include freezing troop positions, allowing displaced residents to return, and cooperating on humanitarian demining, with 18 Cambodian soldiers to be returned after 72 hours of compliance.
- Defense ministers Tea Seiha and Nattaphon Narkphanit signed the joint statement at the 3rd Special General Border Committee meeting under ASEAN observer presence.
- Cambodia reports Thai F-16 airstrikes in Banteay Meanchey during talks, including about 40 bombs near Chok Chey on Dec 26 and four near Serei Saophoan on Dec 27, while Thailand confirms an air-ground operation as self‑defense.
- Officials on both sides report more than 100 deaths since early December and displacement reaching up to about one million people.