TENSION between Thailand and Cambodia rose after the latter sent a letter urging Thailand to promptly send its survey team to jointly work on border demarcation with this having been repeatedly put off since the Feb. 8 general election in Thailand followed by re-election of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul for a second term, Amarin TV said (June 16).
In this letter, Cambodia’s State Secretariate of Border Affairs stated that it had sent several diplomats to discuss holding a special meeting of the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) and the deployment of joint survey teams to work on border demarcation but the Thai side put it off citing various reasons including still completing internal procedures, waiting for the national election to end, waiting for the cabinet to approve appointment of a new Thai chairman of JBC.
To this day, although Prime Minister Anutin and his cabinet ministers have started working, they have not yet officially appointed the new Thai JBC chairman nor have they sent a joint survey team for fieldwork, Phnom Penh said.
This contradicts the substance of the Cambodia-Thailand JBC Special Meeting Agenda dated October 22, 2025, and the spirit of the joint statement of the 3rd General Border Committee (GBC) meeting on December 27, 2025, particularly points 3 and 4, which emphasised that JBC committees of both sides should proceed with land measurement and transfer as soon as possible to allow residents to safely return home without obstacles and with dignity, Phnom Penh added.
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Top – Border map. Photo – Amarin TV
Front Page – Barbed wire fence at Thai-Cambodian border. Photo – PPTVHD36
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