Cambodia's Thailand continues attacks despite Trump's calls for ceasefire

Cambodia and Thailand authorities have charged each other on Sunday that each side has launched artillery attacks on contested border zones, just hours after United States President Donald Trump had declared that leaders of the two countries had agreed to work on the ceasefire agreement.

Cambodian leaders had stressed the day before that they fully back Trump's call for immediate ceasefire. And on the other hand, Thai officials have claimed that, despite respect for the American president, they could not start negotiations while Cambodia targeting its civilians, reports Time.net, broadcast Periscope.

Our “Our condition is that we do not want a third country to mediate, but we are grateful for its concern (Trumpi)”, Thailand's incumbent prime minister, Phumtham Wechachachai, said before journalists, before leaving to visit the border areas.

“We have proposed bilateral meeting between our foreign ministers to conclude the conditions of a ceasefire and withdrawal of troops and long-range weapons”, he has said.

Cambodian officials have said Thai forces are the ones mobilizing along the border.

Meanwhile, official Bangoku has announced that he has responded to Cambodia's attacks.

“la has made it clear to President Donald Trump that Cambodia agrees with the proposal for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between the two armed forces”, wrote Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, on the social Facebook network, stressing that he had agreed to Malaysia's previous ceasefire proposal.
Four days after the worst clashes in more than a decade between Southeast Asian neighbours, the balance of the dead has gone to over 30, of them 13 civilians in Thailand and eight in Cambodia.

And according to authorities, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated from border areas in both countries. /Periscope