So far, Thailand has not commented or issued a similar decision. Earlier, the Thai government had announced that four more soldiers were killed by Cambodian forces.
Cambodia suspended all border crossings with Thailand this Saturday, as the two countries continue hostilities, despite the US President announcing a ceasefire agreement on Friday, which Bangkok denies.
“The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to suspend all entry and exit movements at all Cambodia/Thailand border crossing points, with immediate effect and until further notice,” said the Ministry of Interior, in a statement cited by the AFP agency.
So far, Thailand has not commented or issued a similar decision.
Earlier, the Thai government had announced that four more soldiers were killed by Cambodian forces.
According to Thai authorities, 14 soldiers have died since fighting resumed on Monday on the border between the two Southeast Asian countries.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that the country will continue military operations against Cambodia until the “threats” disappear.
For its part, Cambodia also today accused Bangkok of new “bombings” on its territory.
“On December 13, the Thai armed forces used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs” on several targets, the Cambodian Defense Ministry said.
On Friday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that the two countries had agreed to a new truce, after having spoken by telephone with the Thai Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, and the head of the Cambodian Government, Hun Manet.
Donald Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social that both “agreed to cease all firing from tonight and return to the original Peace Agreement”, concluded with his intervention and “with the help of the great Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim”.
However, the Thai official assured that the American President did not indicate whether a ceasefire should be “established” during a call on Friday with the aim of putting an end to the latest fighting, adding that the matter was not discussed.
After a first episode of violence in July, which was suspended with a ceasefire agreement brokered by the US, this week’s border clashes between the two Southeast Asian countries caused more than 20 deaths and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee towns along the approximately 820 kilometers of common border, on both sides of the divide.
The initial ceasefire, reached in July, resulted from direct pressure from Washington, which threatened to suspend commercial privileges if Bangkok and Phnom Penh did not agree to end hostilities.
The understanding was deepened in October, at a regional meeting in Malaysia in which Trump participated.
Despite the truce, the two countries continued to wage an intense propaganda war and recorded sporadic episodes of cross-border violence, fueling fears of a new escalation before Washington’s diplomatic intervention.
Tensions date back to the 1907 map, drawn up under French colonial administration, which Thailand considers inaccurate, and worsened after the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in 1962, which granted Cambodia sovereignty over the Preah Vihear temple area.
