Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Help sought to end standoff over temple

Denver Post Wire Report
07/22/2008

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Cambodia is seeking regional intervention in its territorial dispute with Thailand after talks between the two neighbors failed to end a military standoff around an ancient temple, officials said today.

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong asked Singapore to form a regional "inter-ministerial group ... to help find a peaceful solution."

Foreign ministers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are holding their annual meeting in Singapore.

Several thousand Thai and Cambodian troops are to remain along their countries' shared border after Monday's talks failed to resolve an eight-day dispute over land near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.

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