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Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto praised Tuesday Malaysia’s peace broker role in the deadly border clash between ASEAN members Cambodia and Thailand.
Relations between Bangkok and Phnom Penh have remained tense since a long-standing territorial dispute boiled over into cross-border clashes in May, but a video purporting to show Thai fighter jets breaching Cambodian airspace was in fact filmed in Malaysia two weeks before the spat.
Len Leng, Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan, Lex Harvey and Jonny Hallam, CNN Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Cambodia and Thailand will meet in Malaysia on Monday for peace talks after days of deadly clashes on their disputed border sent civilians scrambling for safety and relations between the two neighbors cratering.
Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day on Friday as fighting intensified and spread, while Cambodia's leader said Thailand had agreed to a Malaysian ceasefire proposal but then backed down.
Thailand's acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned Friday (July 25) that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 130,000 people "could develop into war", as the countries traded deadly strikes for a second day.
Thailand bombed Cambodia with F-16 fighter jets on Thursday, as relations between the two countries imploded following clashes on a disputed border near the Emerald Triangle.
The Chairman of ASEAN, Anwar Ibrahim, says Malaysia has contacted both leaders as tensions rise at the Thailand-Cambodia border.
The UK Foreign Office has issued updated advice for travelling to Cambodia and Thailand amid clashes on the border. This morning (July 24), skirmishes broke out at a disputed part of the Thailand-Cambodian border, with troops exchanging fire.