US EditionThailand Asks UN Security Council to Address Cambodia Attacks
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In the conflict with Thailand, the Cambodian government has called on the UN Security Council to intervene. The body should call on the Thai military to immediately stop all attacks, according to a letter from the Cambodian UN ambassador. The actions of the Thai armed forces are a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
"The Security Council should call on the Thai military to "immediately stop all attacks" and send an independent reconnaissance mission, demands Cambodia's government.
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Cambodia accuses Thailand of unprovoked attacks along the common border. US President Trump wants to mediate again.
More than 500,000 people are fleeing because of fighting in the border area between Cambodia and Thailand. The government in Phnom Penh laments a "serious violation of international law".
The Cambodian government calls for the UN Security Council to intervene in the renewed conflict on the border with Thailand.
The conflict between the two South-East Asian neighbours, which appeared to have been peaceful in the meantime, had flared up anew last week. Both sides have been accusing themselves since Sunday of having first injured a recent ceasefire in the area along the approximately 800-kilometre-long common border. Persistent fighting has cost several lives since then and drove more than 500,000 inhabitants of the region into flight. Meanwhile, US Presi…
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