Responding to Thailand’s Foreign Ministry call for Cambodia to show goodwill and sincerity in land boundary surveys and demarcation, Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry said on March 12 that it had already sent five successive invitations to Thailand to resume joint technical survey work. It called for substantive progress, particularly in sensitive and priority areas, and said it hoped Thailand would follow its statements with action.
The Cambodian ministry said clarification was necessary because Thailand’s March 11 statement could cause misunderstanding. It denied the reported allegation that Cambodian troops fired a 40-millimetre grenade on February 24, saying it had formally explained in a diplomatic note that day that the incident had not occurred and that both sides’ regional military liaison mechanisms had jointly checked the matter. It urged that such information not continue to circulate, citing the spirit of the December 27, 2025 ceasefire joint statement.
Regarding a dispute over the Ta Oum statue in the An Ses area of Preah Vihear province, Cambodia reiterated that the statue was entirely within its territory. It said the boundary was defined under the 1904 Convention and 1907 Treaty and the 1:200,000-scale maps produced by the Franco-Siamese Mixed Commission, and argued that claims based on unilateral Thai maps were legally untenable. The ministry also said the two countries’ joint survey teams had conducted a detailed survey in September 2015 whose results could be consulted. Cambodia reiterated its commitment to resolving the border issue peacefully under international law and bilateral agreements.