00:00U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said State Department officials were in Malaysia to assist peace efforts as Cambodia and Thailand were scheduled to begin talks here on Monday in hopes for a ceasefire.
00:13President Donald Trump and Rubio were engaged with their counterparts for each country and were monitoring the situation very closely, Rubio said in a statement released by the State Department.
00:24He added that there were State Department officials on the ground in Malaysia to assist these peace efforts.
00:30The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia were scheduled to attend mediation talks over their deadly border conflict in Malaysia on Monday, the Thai government said, as both sides accused each other of launching fresh artillery strikes across contested areas.
00:45Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have intensified since the late May killing of a Cambodian soldier during a brief border skirmish.
00:53Border troops on both sides were reinforced amid a full-blown diplomatic crisis that brought Thailand's fragile coalition government to the brink of collapse.
01:02Hostilities resumed on Thursday and within just four days escalated into the worst fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbors in more than a decade.
