Overview
- The truce took effect at noon local time on Dec 27, halting all weapons use, banning military airspace violations and freezing deployments at current positions.
- Monitoring will include an ASEAN observer team and direct defence-to-defence coordination, with the countries’ foreign ministers due to meet China’s Wang Yi in Yunnan for follow-up talks.
- Thailand agreed to repatriate 18 Cambodian soldiers after 72 hours if the ceasefire is fully maintained, according to the joint statement signed by both defence ministers.
- The accord provides for the return of displaced civilians, cooperation on demining and adherence to anti-landmine commitments, restraint on false information, and joint action against transnational online crime, while border demarcation continues via existing channels.
- Weeks of fighting since early December featured Thai F-16 strikes and rocket and artillery exchanges, killing at least 101 people and displacing more than half a million, and Thai officials reported no gunfire in the hours after the truce began.