After an attempt to use the trade leverage in reaching a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, after a major result, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (local time) that he was optimistic about the peace agreement between South East Asian countries, describing India as “a easy a”.
Talking to reporters during his meeting with European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen, Trump reiterated his commitment to use economic pressure to end the ongoing border war between the two South East Asian countries.
“We are working with Thailand, and we do a lot of business with Thailand and Cambodia, and yet I am reading that they are killing each other. You know, they are fighting. They are in a war. And I say it should be easy for me because I am going with India and Pakistan and Serbia and Kosovo,” said that “said.
According to Al Jazeera, Cambodia and Thailand, in the first day, each other was accused of starting an artillery attack, only a few hours after Trump, the two countries agreed to have a ceasefire.
After the attack on Sunday, the two sides said that they were ready to start negotiations to end their border dispute after talking to their leaders late on Saturday.
CNN reported that Bangkok and Nom Penh are engaged in dating for more than a century in a regional dispute, when France of the colonial era had previously demarcated the border between them, CNN said.
He called Cambodia’s Prime Minister and the acting Prime Minister of Thailand, “I said,” I said that we are not going to deal with the business until you settle the war … and I talked to the two Prime Ministers, and I think they wanted to settle now. “
Trump believed with his arbitration efforts, especially citing the Indo-Pakistan struggle, which he claimed that “was really getting ready to go on.”
Trump was referring to the recent India-Pakistan struggle in May, where he had claimed credit several times for a ceasefire between two nuclear countries, using trade using trade.
The struggle erupted after 26 civilians were killed in a terrorist attack in Pahgam on 22 April, after which India retaliated through accurate attacks under Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Jammu and Kashmir (Pojk).
However, according to Indian officials, it was the Director General of Military Operations of Pakistan (DGMO), who approached his Indian counterpart to request to end enmity, after which the ceasefire agreed.
He said, “To get those things if I can do it and if I can use business to do so, it is my respect,” he said, reflecting his faith in business as a diplomatic tool.
Four days after the worst battle in over a decade among the South East Asian neighbors, the toll of death was above 30, including 13 citizens in Thailand and eight in Cambodia.
According to Al Jazeera, officials have also extracted more than 200,000 people from border areas in both countries. (AI)
