- Malaysia organizes talks with the participation of the United States and China.
- Ceasefire to start midnight on Monday.
- Cambodia PM thanks Trump, China for participating in the pace effort.
The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand agreed on a ceasefire on Monday from midnight, in order to end their deadliest conflict in more than a decade after five days of ferocious fighting.
In the midst of an international effort to repress the conflict, Thai and Cambodian leaders had interviews in Malaysia organized by his Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the current president of the Anase Regional Bloc, where the two parties agreed to arrest hostilities and resume direct communications.
Anwar said at the opening of a press conference alongside Thai and Cambodian leaders that there would be “an immediate and unconditional cease-fire with midnight effect this evening. It is final”.
The neighbors of Southeast Asia accuse each other of starting the fighting last week, before the Esserdier with a bombardment of heavy artillery and Thai air strikes along their 817 km (508 mile) land border.
Anwar had proposed ceasefire talks shortly after a long-standing border dispute broke out on Thursday in conflict, and the United States also proposed to help the negotiations.
President Donald Trump called the two leaders on weekends to exhort them to settle their differences, warning that he would not conclude the trade agreements with them unless they end the fighting.
The tension between Thailand and Cambodia has intensified since the murder of a Cambodian soldier during a brief skirmish in late May.
The two parties strengthened the border troops in the midst of a fully -fledged diplomatic crisis which brought the government of fragile coalition of Thailand to the edge of the collapse.
“Today, we have a very good meeting and very good results … who hope to immediately stop the fighting that caused many lives, injuries and also the trip of people,” said Hun Manet, expressing his appreciation to Trump and China for his efforts in participation in the process.
“We hope that the solutions that Prime Minister Anwar has just announced will establish a condition to move forward so that our bilateral discussion returns to the normality of the relationship and, as the foundation of the future de -escalation of forces.”
Thai Prime Minister of actor Phumtham Wechayachai, who had previously expressed doubts about the sincerity of Cambodia before negotiations in Malaysia, said that Thailand had accepted a cease-fire which “would be successfully made in good faith by the two parties”.