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Viewing cable 08BANGKOK1486, PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE: THAIS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08BANGKOK1486 2008-05-15 02:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bangkok
VZCZCXRO4681
PP RUEHCHI RUEHCN RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHBK #1486/01 1360231
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 150231Z MAY 08
FM AMEMBASSY BANGKOK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3033
INFO RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 0885
RUEHZS/ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS
RUEHCHI/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI 5246
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BANGKOK 001486 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
PARIS PLEASE PASS TO USMISSION UNESCO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNESCO PREL SCUL PBTS TH CB
SUBJECT: PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE: THAIS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT 
INSCRIPTION 
 
REF: A. PHNOM PENH 392 
     B. BANGKOK 871 
 
BANGKOK 00001486  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama 
intended to discuss the disposition of the Preah Vihear 
temple during a May 14 trip to Cambodia.  According to a Thai 
MFA official, Noppadon hoped to discuss with the RGC in 
general terms a possible joint statement on the management of 
the temple complex.  The Thai MFA aims to finalize the joint 
statement text in the coming weeks.  The Thai MFA said the 
Thai media and politicians were trying to sensationalize the 
issue by incorrectly portraying the RTG as prepared to make 
concessions relating to Preah Vihear to obtain other benefits 
from Cambodia.  End Summary. 
 
2. (U) The RTG continued to support the UNESCO World Heritage 
Commission's inscription of the Preah Vihear temple; however, 
it still held reservations about the resolution of the 
disputed area surrounding the complex, a working level 
contact at the MFA told us May 14.  Thai Foreign Minister 
Noppadon Pattama traveled to Cambodia today (May 14) to 
attend a ceremony opening new roads in Cambodia that Thailand 
had helped to finance.  He also planned to use the trip to 
have a side meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok 
An as a follow up to the May 6 discussions between the RTG 
and RGC regarding the Preah Vihear temple issue.  With this 
in mind, several officials from the Departments of East Asian 
and Legal Affairs accompanied Noppadon to Cambodia. 
 
3. (SBU) Noppadon intended to reiterate to Sok An Thailand's 
backing of the temple's inscription.  He would deliver the 
message that the Thais are not interested in overturning the 
1962 ICJ decision, which declared that the temple complex 
belonged to the Cambodians.  Rather, the RTG was keen to 
resolve the ongoing dispute of what the Thais identify as 
"overlapping territorial claims." (Ref B) Our contact 
acknowledged that the Cambodians believed the ICJ decision 
resolved any boundary dispute.  The RGC and RTG relied on two 
different maps to support their distinct claims, however, and 
the RTG does not consider all boundary disputes resolved. 
 
4. (SBU) The FM also planned to discuss in general terms the 
proposed contents of the RTG's version of a joint statement 
on Preah Vihear and encourage the RGC to finalize the joint 
statement before the July session of the World Heritage 
Committee.  This joint statement, our contact explained, was 
a document that both countries agreed to redraft during the 
May 6 discussions.  It would lay out the expectations of each 
country for the future and management of the temple complex, 
thus forming the basis for continued negotiations.  Thailand 
understood that the Cambodian position emphasized inscription 
and the development of conservation plans for the temple 
complex.  The Thais supported this position, but wanted to 
expand on it to include the issues of boundary demarcation as 
well as specific management instructions. 
 
5. (U) Thailand's focus on management issues stemmed from 
ongoing practices at the temple complex that are of concern 
to the RTG.  For example, the Thais claimed that several 
hundred Cambodians have lived in the disputed territory since 
2001, when the RGC moved them to that area.  "We have not 
outright objected to their living there (in the disputed 
area) as we do not want to make an issue out of it at this 
point," stated our contact.  At the same time, the Thais 
contended that this community did not properly dispose of its 
waste water, which was freely flowing in to clearly 
demarcated Thai territory.  If the Cambodians refused any 
consideration of joint RGC-RTG management of the disputed 
area, then Thailand would insist that the joint statement 
include guarantees that situations such as the 
above-mentioned would be addressed according to specific, 
agreed upon directives.  (Note: On a visit to the temple, 
PolOff observed a large number of Cambodians clearly living 
in or around the complex, operating market stalls.  End note.) 
 
6. (U) The MFA expected to meet the Cambodians again in two 
to three weeks to attempt to finalize the joint statements. 
To date, the MFA's Legal Affairs Department had prepared a 
draft for the FM, but Noppadon had yet to approve it. 
 
7. (U) Recent Thai media coverage of the issue raised the 
matter of disputed coastal waters between Thailand and 
Cambodia, and linked it with the Preah Vihear temple dispute. 
 In response, the opposition party in parliament publicly 
criticized the RTG for considering the concession of Thai 
territory associated with Preah Vihear in exchange for access 
to natural gas rights along the coast.  However, our MFA 
 
BANGKOK 00001486  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
contact described the news reports and opposition party's 
statement as sensationalistic.  Negotiations on both issues 
operated in parallel, she clarified, and the MFA Legal 
Affairs Department had already cautioned against linking the 
two issues for fear it would further complicate the ongoing 
negotiations.  Thailand's objective was to resolve both 
disputes, she stated, and the Preah Vihear temple inscription 
could move forward without definitive resolution of the 
ongoing border disputes. 
JOHN