US President Donald Trump said he expects to make a phone call on Wednesday (10) about the Thailand and the Cambodiaas clashes intensified along the disputed border following the collapse of a recent ceasefire agreement.
“Tomorrow I have to make a phone call and I think they will understand. Who else could say, ‘I’m going to make a phone call and stop a war between two very powerful countries?’ Thailand and Cambodia are at war again. But I’ll do it. So we are building peace through strength. That’s what we’re doing,” said the American leader at a rally.
A confrontation on the border between countries intensified for a second day, with joint accusations of bombing civilian areas.
With neighbors trading blame for Monday’s start, it was unclear how or if a fragile ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump in July could be salvaged.
Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Thailand following accusations of violating the ceasefire agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump about two months ago.
At least one Thai soldier was killed and four were injured in new clashes that broke out around two areas in Ubon Ratchathani province, in the far east of the country, the Thai army said in a statement, after its troops were hit by Cambodian fire.
The fighting is the most intense since a five-day exchange of rockets and heavy artillery in July marked the most intense clashes in recent history.
In this confrontation, at least 48 people were killed and 300,000 were displaced before Trump intervened to broker a ceasefire.
Thailand and Cambodia have disputed sovereignty over undemarcated points along their 817-kilometer land border for more than a century, first mapped in 1907 by France, when it governed Cambodia as a colony.
