Confirming the start of the military negotiations, Thailand’s Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Tuesday that the border was calm now, according to Reuters. “There is no escalation,” Phumtham told reporters. “Right now things are calm.”
“The frontline has eased after a ceasefire took effect from Monday midnight in accordance with the spirit of the agreement between Cambodia and Thailand at a special meeting in Malaysia,” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said in a post on his official social media platforms on Tuesday.
“A sooner cessation of hostilities will also allow affected people, such as evacuees, to return to their homes and resume normal livelihoods sooner. This ceasefire and peace agreement is yielding positive and effective results.”
In the hours between midnight and the military meeting, Thailand’s army had accused Cambodia of violating the truce, saying clashes were continuing along the 800km (500-mile) border.
“At the time the agreement took effect, the Thai side detected that Cambodian forces had launched armed attacks into several areas within Thai territory,” Thai army spokesman Winthai Suwaree told Agence France-Presse.
