Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire after weeks of deadly border clashes

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00:00Thailand and Cambodia have agreed on a ceasefire to end weeks of clashes along their 817km shared

00:07border. The fighting was reignited in early December after an earlier truce brokered by

00:12Malaysia and the US ended the conflict back in July. The violence has killed more than 100 people

00:18and displaced over half a million living on both sides of the border. Now for more on this we can

00:24cross over to our Thailand correspondent Tommy Walker who's standing by for us in Chantaburi.

00:29Tommy thank you very much for joining us. Can you please bring us up to date on the latest?

00:36Yes the latest is about four hours ago local time 12 o'clock Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire

00:43agreement after nearly three weeks of border conflicts which raged throughout the 800km border

00:49around about 10 battlefronts at the peak of this conflict but now the ceasefire has been signed

00:55there's been no reports this afternoon of that being broken and there is a 72 hour window that

01:02both countries have agreed to to monitor whether this ceasefire will hold as mentioned there's been

01:08conflict here along the border in the past including in July the second time it's broken out this year

01:15so yes the ceasefire agreement's been signed and now we'll just have to wait to see whether both

01:21countries can adhere to this agreement. And this is not the first truce which the two neighbours have

01:28signed so is this one likely to hold any longer?

01:34Well that's the big question because you know for the people who've lived on the border for many years

01:39Thailand and Cambodia have sporadically broken out into flare-ups into into fire exchanges this this time

01:46around it's been certainly the most severe and you know these talks to get to the ceasefire today have

01:53been thrashed out all week and the first day of talks didn't go so well only 30 35 minutes and that that

02:00went along for us but the second day was a bit tense but finally both countries have i ended it out

02:05there's 16 points in this uh ceasefire agreement and basically it's both agreeing that neither militaries

02:13will agree to reinforce their troops they're both looking to allow civilians to return home as soon

02:17as possible um and you know trying to work together at policy level to try and improve relations and keep

02:27the border peaceful um so right now the focus will be on the next three days whether the whether sporadic

02:34outbreaks of fire will happen or not if they don't then we could see a return to normality sooner rather

02:42than later thank you very much that was tommy walker our correspondent in thailand

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