- The new inflammation points emerge as the death toll crosses 30.
- The Asean chair, Anwar Ibrahim, pushes the high fire.
- Dispute centers in old temples, border points.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Saturday that the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand had agreed to meet immediately to quickly solve the fire, while looking to negotiate peace after three days of struggle along their border.
In a series of publications on social networks during a visit to Scotland, Trump said he had spoken with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and the interim prime minister of Thailand, Phumtham Wechayachai, and warned them that he would not make commercial agreements with any of the governments of Southeast Asia if the border conflict continued.
“Both parties are looking for immediate fire and peace,” Trump wrote by giving a blow story of their diplomatic efforts.
Before Trump spoke with the two leaders, the clashes at the Thai-Cambodian border persisted on a third day, and new inflammation points emerged on Saturday when both parties said they had acted in self-defense in the border dispute and asked the other to stop fighting and began negotiations.
More than 30 people have been killed and more than 130,000 people displaced in the worst struggle between the residents of Southeast Asia in 13 years.
There were early clashes on Saturday, both parties said, in the neighboring Thai coastal province of Treat and the province of Pursat de Cambodia, a new front of more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) of other points of conflict along the border with the long border.
The two countries have faced each other since the murder of a Cambodian soldier at the end of May during a brief skirmish. The troops on both sides of the border were reinforced in the middle of a complete diplomatic crisis that led the fragile coalition government of Thailand to the edge of collapse.
Until Saturday, Thailand said that seven soldiers and 13 civilians had been killed in the clashes, while in Cambodia, five soldiers and eight civilians had been killed, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, Maly Scheata.
After the restriction calls on both sides of Trump's older assistants, it was directly involved on Saturday, speaking with each leader and saying that he transmitted messages from one side to another.
“They have agreed to meet immediately and quickly solve the fire and, ultimately, La Paz!” Trump wrote, saying that both countries wanted to return to the “commercial table.” He has tried to reach separate agreements with dozens of countries in response to his announcement of broad tariffs in imports to the United States.
“When everything is done, and La Paz is at hand, I hope to conclude our commercial agreements with both!” Trump said.
He did not offer details about the high fire negotiations that said that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to maintain.
Thai and Cambodian embassies in Washington did not immediately respond to comments requests.
In the Thai border province of Sisket, a university complex has become temporary accommodation, where a volunteer said that more than 5,000 people were staying.
Samrong Khamduang said he left his farm, about 10 km from the border, when the fight broke out on Thursday. The 51 -year -old husband stayed to take care of the cattle.
“We are so scared with the sound of artillery,” he said. “But my husband was left behind, and now we lost the connection. I couldn't call it. I don't know what is happening there.”
In Kuala Lumpur, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, president of the ASEAN regional bloc, said he would continue to promote a high fire proposal. Cambodia has supported Anwar's plan, while Thailand has said he agreed with him in principle.
“There is still some fire exchange,” said Anwar, according to the state agency Bernama. He said he had asked his Minister of Foreign Affairs “to contact the respective ministries of foreigners and, if possible, I will continue to interact with them, at least to stop fighting.”
Security Council meeting
Thailand ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday a meeting of the Security Council that the soldiers had been injured by newly planted land mines in Thai territory twice since mid -July, he says that Cambodia has denied strongly, and said that Cambodia had launched attacks on Thursday morning.
“Thailand urges Cambodia to immediately cease all hostilities and acts of aggression, and resume the dialogue of good faith,” said Cherdchai Chaivaivid to the observations published to the media.
The Cambodian Ministry of Defense said that Thailand had launched “a deliberate, not caused and illegal military attack” and was mobilizing military troops and teams on the border.
“These deliberate military preparations reveal Thailand's intention to expand his aggression and rape the sovereignty of Cambodia,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Cambodia asked the international community to “condemn Thailand's aggression in the strongest terms” and avoid an expansion of their military activities, while Bangkok reiterated that he wanted to solve the bilateral dispute.
Thailand and Cambodia have discussed for decades about the jurisdiction of several points not highlighted along their land border of 817 km (508 miles), with the property of the ancient Hindu temples that Gimen and the preeah of 11th century central century to disputes.
Preah Vihear was granted to Cambodia by the International Court of Justice in 1962, but the tension increased in 2008 after Cambodia tried to list it as a Unesco World Heritage site.
That led to skames for several years and at least a dozen deaths.
Cambodia in June said he had asked the court to resolve his disputes with Thailand, which says he has never recognized the jurisdiction of the court and prefers a bilateral approach.
