Overview

• Thailand has halved operating hours at ten Cambodia crossings to 8 a.m.–4 p.m. from 6 a.m.–10 p.m. in response to security concerns
• Both nations bolstered troop deployments along their undemarcated frontier and have agreed to return forces to previously established positions
• Cambodia formally requested an ICJ ruling on June 6 to secure a binding settlement of the century-old dispute
• Thailand has refused to recognise the court’s jurisdiction and will pursue bilateral negotiations through a Joint Boundary Committee meeting on June 14
• The dispute dates to a 1907 French colonial border map and has sparked deadly skirmishes since 2008, including a clash on May 28 that killed a Cambodian soldier