ထုိင္း ႏွင့္ ကေမၻာဒီးယား ဆက္ဆံေရး အေျခအေန တင္းမာ

ထုိင္း ႏွင့္ ကေမၻာဒီးယား ဆက္ဆံေရး တင္းမာမွဳ အခ်ိန္အေနေတြဟာ အထြတ္အထိပ္ သုိ ့ ေရာက္ရွိေနပါတယ္။ ထုိင္း၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ေဟာင္း ထပ္ဆင္ရွင္နာ၀ပ္ အား ကေမၻာဒီးယားႏုိင္ငံရဲ့ စီးပြားေရး အႀကံေပးပုဂၢဳိလ္ အျဖစ္ခန္ ့အပ္ေႀကာင္း ေႀကျငာျပီးေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ အေျခအေနေတြ ပုိမုိတင္းမာလာျပီး ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံစလုံးမွ သံတမန္မ်ားကုိ ျပန္လည္ေခၚယူႀကျပီးျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထုိင္းႏွင့္ ကေမၻာဒီးယားတုိ ့ရဲ့ အဆင္မေျပမွဳ တဖက္မွာ ထုိင္းျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ အေျခအေန ေတြကုိ ဘယ္လုိရုိက္ခတ္ အက်ိဴးသက္ေရာက္မည္ ဆုိဒါ စိတ္၀င္စားစရာ ေကာင္းေနပါသည္။

Thai-Cambodian dispute escalates

06 November 2009 | 06:36:13 PM | Source: AFP

Thailand today threatened to seal its border with Cambodia in a spiralling diplomatic row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser.

The warning came a day after the two countries recalled their respective ambassadors due to the dispute over the appointment of Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and lives abroad to avoid a jail term for corruption.

"If Cambodia still adopts a hard line and uncompromising attitude, then we must continue to downgrade relations and maybe seal off all border checkpoints," Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said.

There were no reports of any incidents along the border so far and trading was going on as normal, Suthep said.

Border skirmishes fought since July 2008

Thailand and Cambodia have fought a series of deadly skirmishes since July 2008 over disputed land that surrounds the ancient Preah Vihear temple on the border.

Thailand boosted security around the Cambodian Embassy after the Cambodian ambassador returned to Phnom Penh early Friday. There have been rallies in recent weeks around the building by anti-Thaksin protesters.

Suthep said Thailand expected Cambodia to reciprocate, adding: "Thaksin should ask Cambodian authorities to secure the Thai embassy and Thai interests in Cambodia," he said.
Thai embassy set fire in 2003

In 2003 Cambodian protesters set fire to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, again after both countries recalled their ambassadors in a diplomatic row.

Suthep meanwhile said there were no plans for Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to meet his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen when the pair attend a summit of Mekong River basin nations in Tokyo starting Friday.

There was no immediate comment from Phnom Penh.

The Cambodian government announced the appointment of Thaksin as economics adviser on state television late Wednesday, almost two weeks after Hun Sen first floated the idea at a summit of Asian leaders.

Twice-elected Thaksin remains a hugely influential figure in Thailand, which has been rocked by years of protests by his red-clad supporters and yellow-clad opponents, including rallies that shut down Bangkok's airports last year.