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Following talks, Dr. Sam Seun of the Royal Academy of Cambodia calls on the international community to support ending the conflict and urges all ASEAN member states to work together toward a regional solution.
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00:00Following talks earlier today, Dr. Sam Seon of the Royal Academy of Cambodia
00:05calls on the international community to show its support to help bring an end to the conflict.
00:11He also urged all ASEAN member states to work together toward a regional solution.
00:18We warmly welcome the intervention from the international community
00:23because we are not the one that provoked the problem.
00:27We just want this problem to finish, to end as soon as possible.
00:33I think it is very important to have the third party,
00:38such as United States, China, or the European Union, or ASEAN, especially ASEAN,
00:45and especially Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim,
00:49to work very hard to express the strong support to end this conflict.
00:54Because we, the international community, I mean, if we focus on the problems between Cambodia and Thailand,
01:04it took place 100 years ago, I mean, after the France-Sham Treaty in 1904 and 1907.
01:12And then in 1962, when the ICJ formally announced that the Prabhye Temple is the land of Cambodia,
01:21located in the sovereignty of Cambodia.
01:25While Sam Seon praised Malaysia's efforts to address the issue,
01:28he also urged other member states to step up, stressing the need for ASEAN to work collectively towards peace.
01:34We hope for the stronger ASEAN, because it seems like during this time,
01:40we, the ASEAN country, ASEAN association,
01:43it seems like the ASEAN capacity is very limited.
01:47We could not solve even our own problems.
01:50We, ASEAN, it's not strong enough.
01:52But, however, we are sanctioned to Malaysia,
01:56especially the Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim,
01:59that worked very hard to solve this problem.
02:01But we are asking about other ASEAN countries that are a member of ASEAN,
02:08but they just keep quiet.
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