PHNOM
PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday called for
cooperation with Thailand to settle the border dispute peacefully.
During a meeting with
new Thai ambassador to Cambodia Sompong Sanguanbun, Hun Sen said that
good cooperation and will are very essential to solve the border
conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, the Prime Minister's spokesman
Eang Sophalleth told reporters after the meeting.
"We have to cooperate
each other in the framework of ASEAN in order to fulfill the ASEAN
community by 2015," Eang Sophalleth quoted the premier as saying.
The Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has implemented the roadmap in 2009
toward the realization of the ASEAN economic, political-security, and
socio-cultural communities by 2015.
"Cambodia still has
optimism to achieve the ASEAN goal because the relations between
Cambodia and Thailand on tourism, trade, investment and other fields are
still going on," he added.
Meanwhile, the
ambassador pledged to cooperate with the government of Cambodia in order
to restore relations and cooperation between the two nations.
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