Anutin’s remarks came a day after the Thai premier appeared to brush off a continued role for Trump – who has been chasing a Nobel Peace Prize – in any further negotiations between the two nations aimed at solving their border dispute.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has said he nominated the US president for a Nobel Peace Prize, crediting him with “innovative diplomacy” that ended the clashes.
On Sunday, the Thai foreign ministry said the foreign ministers of both countries met in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend to discuss the ceasefire, with US and Malaysian officials present.
Influential former Cambodian leader Hun Sen, who is Hun Manet’s father, told a visiting senior Malaysian official on Tuesday that the border situation remained “a concern and very fragile” and that “clashes could happen again”, according to a statement posted to Hun Sen’s Facebook page.
Hun Sen also told Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi that Cambodia wanted “an effective ceasefire and a solution that leads to normalcy of ties between Cambodia and Thailand”.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the current chair of ASEAN, has said Trump will attend the meetings but there has been no official confirmation yet from Washington.
The East Asia Summit, to be held during this month’s ASEAN meeting, will issue a chairman’s statement, rather than a joint statement, as the United States had objected to use of the word “inclusivity”, Mohamad added, without elaborating.
Leaders of all 10 members of the grouping and trading partners, such as China, Japan, Russia and the United States, will attend the summit.
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