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Press Briefing – Update on the implementation of the immediate and unconditional ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand

Sreyphos Poch​​   On August 21, 2025 - 5:40 pm​   In Cambodia Insider  
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Press Briefing – Update on the implementation of the immediate and unconditional ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand Press Briefing – Update on the implementation of the immediate and unconditional ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand

 

Keynote Address by H.E. LTG. Maly Socheata, Spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence:

4:00PM, August 21, 2025

Starting from yesterday, the Ministry of National Defence of the Kingdom of Cambodia facilitated a full-day program of a field inspection tour for the Interim Observer Team (IOT) comprising representatives from 5 countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The team led by Colonel NAZLEE BIN ABDUL RAHIM, Malaysian Defence Attaché to Cambodia, has visited Preah Vihear Province and inspected the surrounding area around the temple. 

And as of today, the team remains on the ground fulfilling the mission of observing, verifying, and reporting on the situation of the border areas after the Ceasefire Agreement took effect.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned IOT’s mission stemmed from the outcomes of a special meeting held on July 28, 2025, in Putrajaya, Malaysia, and the Extraordinary Meeting of the Cambodia-Thailand General Border Committee (GBC), which concluded on August 7, 2025. Through these meetings, both sides agreed that, “pending the ASEAN observer team led by Malaysia as agreed upon by both sides in Putrajaya on July 28, 2025, the Interim Observer Team (IOT) comprising Defence Attaches of ASEAN Member States accredited to Thailand or Cambodia and led by the Defence Attaches of Malaysia will be established separately and independently in each country, Cambodia and Thailand, to observe, on each side, the implementations of the ceasefire on a regular basis. The composition of each country’s IOT is independently invited by the host country in consultation with Malaysia. The IOT will operate without crossing the border and will work in close coordination and consultation with the RBCs and GBC of each country.

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