PAILIN PROVINCE, CAMBODIA - DECEMBER 27: The Ban Pakkad Border Checkpoint betwixt Thailand and Cambodia, which is adjacent wherever the ceasefire talks instrumentality place, successful Pailin Province, Cambodia, connected December 27, 2025. The ceasefire talks betwixt Thai and Cambodian defence officials instrumentality spot successful Pong Nam Ron territory of Chanthaburi state successful Thailand, adjacent the Ban Pakkad Border Checkpoint. The ceasefire is expected to instrumentality effect contiguous Dec. 27. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Thailand and Cambodia ended weeks of fierce borderline clashes connected Saturday with a 2nd ceasefire successful caller months successful the worst warring successful years betwixt the Southeast Asian nations.
The ceasefire was holding, a Thai Defence Ministry spokesperson, Rear Admiral Surasant Kongsiri, told Reuters astir 2 hours aft it went into effect astatine noon (0500 GMT).
"So acold there's been nary study of gunfire," helium said.
Cambodia's Ministry of National Defence did not study immoderate clashes aft what it said had been a Thai airstrike aboriginal connected Saturday earlier the ceasefire announcement.
The agreement, signed by Thai Defence Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit and his Cambodian counterpart Tea Seiha, ended 20 days of warring that killed astatine slightest 101 radical and displaced much than fractional a cardinal connected some sides and included fighter-jet sorties, exchanges of rocket occurrence and artillery barrages.
ASEAN to show truce, bilateral talks to proceed
The clashes were reignited aboriginal this period aft a breakdown successful a ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had helped broker to halt a erstwhile circular of fighting.
"Both sides hold to support existent unit deployments without further movement," the ministers said successful a associated connection connected the ceasefire.
"Any reinforcement would heighten tensions and negatively impact semipermanent efforts to resoluteness the situation," according to the connection released connected societal media by Cambodia.
A idiosyncratic walks past the closed Ban Klong Luk borderline crossing from Thailand to Cambodia, successful Aranyaprathet municipality successful the Thai borderline state of Sa Kaeo connected December 12, 2025.
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Cambodia's apical diplomat, Prak Sokhonn, and his Thai counterpart, Sihasak Phuangketkeow, volition conscionable with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi successful China's Yunnan state connected Sunday and Monday to sermon the borderline situation, according to a connection from Cambodian overseas ministry and a Thai official.
For much than a century, Thailand and Cambodia person contested sovereignty astatine assorted undemarcated points on their 817-km (508-mile) onshore borderline - a quality that has occasionally exploded into skirmishes and fighting.
The caller ceasefire volition beryllium monitored by an perceiver squad from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations bloc arsenic good arsenic nonstop coordination betwixt some countries, Natthaphon said.
"At the aforesaid time, astatine the argumentation level, determination volition beryllium nonstop connection betwixt the curate of defence and main of the equipped forces of some sides," helium told reporters.
Civilians to return, demarcation efforts unaffected
Tensions betwixt the 2 neighbours came to a caput successful July, erstwhile they clashed for 5 days on immoderate parts of the frontier, leaving astatine slightest 48 radical dormant and 300,000 displaced earlier Trump intervened to bring astir a truce.
That ceasefire broke down successful aboriginal December with each broadside accusing the different of moves that led to clashes.
Anwar, presently the ASEAN chair, and Trump had been incapable to stitch unneurotic different ceasefire, arsenic warring dispersed from forested regions adjacent Laos to the coastal provinces connected the Gulf of Thailand.
A Thai worker wounded by gunfire from Cambodian soldiers is taken to infirmary by chopper for aesculapian attraction successful Thailand connected Dec. 8, 2025.
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The renewed ceasefire came aft a peculiar gathering connected Monday of ASEAN overseas ministers successful Kuala Lumpur, followed by 3 days of talks betwixt the warring sides astatine a borderline checkpoint, wherever the 2 defence ministers met connected Saturday.
They agreed connected the instrumentality of radical displaced from affected borderline areas, portion underlining that neither broadside would usage immoderate unit against civilians.
Thailand volition besides instrumentality 18 Cambodian soldiers successful its custody since the July clashes if the ceasefire is afloat maintained for 72 hours, according to the agreement.
Saturday's pact, however, volition not interaction immoderate borderline demarcation activities nether mode betwixt some countries, leaving the task of resolving disputed areas on the frontier to existing bilateral mechanisms.
"War and clashes don't marque the 2 countries oregon the 2 radical happy," Thailand's Air Chief Marshal Prapas Sornjaidee told reporters. "I privation to accent that the Thai radical and the Cambodian radical are not successful struggle with each other."
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