25-07-2025
- Politics
- New Straits Times
UN Security Council to hold closed-door meeting on Thailand-Cambodia border clashes
NEW YORK: The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting on Thailand-Cambodia border clashes on Friday, reported Xinhua.
According to the Security Council programme, the meeting, scheduled for 3pm EDT (1900 GMT) Friday, was reportedly requested by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
The situation at the Thai-Cambodian border escalated following skirmishes that began Thursday morning. The two sides blamed each other for violating international law.
According to the deputy spokesman of the Thai Ministry of Public Health, 14 Thai people were killed and 46 others injured in military clashes near the Thailand-Cambodia border as of 9pm local time on Thursday.
Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey deputy governor, Met Meas Pheakdey, told Xinhua over the telephone that one villager was killed and five others were wounded on Thursday.
Both sides blamed the other for starting the fighting, which erupted near two temples on the border between the Thai province of Surin and Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey.
–Bernama-Xinhua
