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Thailand and Cambodia on Saturday signed a new ceasefire agreement, ending weeks of military conflict over disputed territories. Thai Defence Minister General Natthaphon Narkphanit and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Tea Seiha signed the joint agreement at the 3rd special meeting of the General Boundary Committee (GBC), reaffirming a previous ceasefire in July and outlining 16 de-escalation measures intended to stabilize the region.
The agreement’s key provisions include an immediate halt to all hostilities effective from noon on December 27, 2025. In line with the Kuala Lumpur Joint Declaration of October 2023, Thailand will return 18 Cambodian soldiers after 72 hours of sustained ceasefire.
The de-escalation agreement also mandates restrictions on troop movements, commitments to refrain from provocative actions, and joint efforts on humanitarian demining. In the agreement, both sides reaffirm their obligations under the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as the current Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair, welcomed the immediate ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, saying, “The decision to halt fighting and to hold forces in place reflects a shared recognition that restraint is required, above all in the interest of civilians.”
Thailand and Cambodia have endured a protracted border dispute rooted in colonial-era mappings from the Franco-Siamese treaties of 1907, which ambiguously defined boundaries between Thailand and French Indochina (present-day Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and peninsular Malaysia). A focal point of the tensions is the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled belongs to Cambodia in 1962; a decision later reaffirmed in 2013. While Thailand officially recognizes Cambodian ownership of ancient Khmer temples, such as the Preah Vihear, some members of the population still hold nationalistic views claiming ties or even ownership, which have contributed to ongoing tensions.
A ceasefire brokered by the US and Malaysia collapsed in November after Thailand withdrew from the agreement following a landmine incident that injured two Thai soldiers. The subsequent escalation has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with 40 civilians either killed or wounded and 800,000 people forced to flee the region. In response, the Chair’s Statement at the Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on 22 December called for an immediate end to hostilities and a return to diplomatic negotiations, supported by the ASEAN Observer Team (AOT).
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The agreement’s key provisions include an immediate halt to all hostilities effective from noon on December 27, 2025. In line with the Kuala Lumpur Joint Declaration of October 2023, Thailand will return 18 Cambodian soldiers after 72 hours of sustained ceasefire.
The de-escalation agreement also mandates restrictions on troop movements, commitments to refrain from provocative actions, and joint efforts on humanitarian demining. In the agreement, both sides reaffirm their obligations under the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as the current Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair, welcomed the immediate ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, saying, “The decision to halt fighting and to hold forces in place reflects a shared recognition that restraint is required, above all in the interest of civilians.”
Thailand and Cambodia have endured a protracted border dispute rooted in colonial-era mappings from the Franco-Siamese treaties of 1907, which ambiguously defined boundaries between Thailand and French Indochina (present-day Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and peninsular Malaysia). A focal point of the tensions is the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled belongs to Cambodia in 1962; a decision later reaffirmed in 2013. While Thailand officially recognizes Cambodian ownership of ancient Khmer temples, such as the Preah Vihear, some members of the population still hold nationalistic views claiming ties or even ownership, which have contributed to ongoing tensions.
A ceasefire brokered by the US and Malaysia collapsed in November after Thailand withdrew from the agreement following a landmine incident that injured two Thai soldiers. The subsequent escalation has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with 40 civilians either killed or wounded and 800,000 people forced to flee the region. In response, the Chair’s Statement at the Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on 22 December called for an immediate end to hostilities and a return to diplomatic negotiations, supported by the ASEAN Observer Team (AOT).
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