Ceasefire accord offers fragile hopeListen to this articlelet's try again: Cambodia's Defence Minister Tea Seiha and Thailand's Defence Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit during a special General Border Committee (GBC) meeting at a border checkpoint in Chanthaburi yesterday. With the signing of a ceasefire accord by the defence ministers of Thailand and Cambodia, the borders were to be quiet as of noon yesterday. The immediate challenge now is how to sustain peace between the two neighbours that share an almost 800‑km‑long border. Representing Thailand at the 3rd General Border Committee meeting where the agreement was reached was Defence Minister Nattaphon Narkphanit, alongside his Cambodian counterpart Gen Tea Seiha. These include maintaining troop deployments without reinforcement, refraining from provocation, cooperating on landmine destruction under the Ottawa Convention and using the Asean Observation Team as well as bilateral mechanisms such as the Joint Border Commission (JBC).

Source: Bangkok Post December 27, 2025 23:57 UTC