ICJ's verdict on Preah Vihear dispute delayed to next year: Thai FM Surapong

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THAI-KHMER DISPUTE
ICJ's verdict on Preah Vihear dispute delayed to next year : Thai FM
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided to postpone delivering of verdict on the dispute between Thailand and Cambodia concerning interpretation of the ICJ's 1962 judgement on Preah Vihear Temple, Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said Friday.

It is expected that the ruling would be delivered around February next year instead of late this year as earlier expected, he said.

"I was informed that the ICJ judges are busy with other cases pending in the court. So the case over the Preah Vihear dispute has to be delayed," he said.

Thailand and Cambodia are in conflict over the interpretation of the 1962 judgement the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which rules the Preah Vihear temple is situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia and orders Thailand to withdraw troops from the temple and its vicinity.

Cambodia asked the court to make clear that the vicinity of the temple should go along with the boundary line appeared in the Annex I map of 1:200,000 scale. hailand argues it left the "vicin¬ity" of the temple 50 years ago as ordered, and that the area whose status Cambodia wants the court to interpret is not same as that referred to in its previous judgement.

-- The Nation 2013-10-11

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ICJ postpones hearing of Phra Viharn case

BANGKOK, 11 October 2013 (NNT) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided to postpone its ruling on the ownership of the Phra Viharn temple until February next year.

According to Foreign Affairs Miniter Surapong Tovichakchaikul, the ICJ, generally known as the World Court, will not render its decision on the Phra Viharn case late this year as scheduled, adding that the hearing has been rescheduled for February next year as the court has been occupied with other cases.

In April this year, both Thailand and Cambodia presented their oral pleadings to the world court, trying to convince the ICJ of their sovereignty in the disputed area surrounding the Phra Viharn Temple.

Mr. Surapong said that Cambodia tried to convince the Court to accept its request for interpretation of the 1962 Judgment by arguing Thailand and Cambodia disagreed on the scope and meaning of the Judgment, in particular with regard to the Temple’s “vicinity” and the withdrawal of forces from Cambodia’s “territory.” Cambodia posited that it never accepted Thailand’s determination on the limit of the Temple’s vicinity or the barbed-wire fence set up according to the Thai Cabinet’s Resolution in 1962.

Cambodia underscored the status and significance of the “Annex I map” in the 1962 Judgment by claiming that the Court recognized and based its decision on the frontier line on that map.

Meanwhile, Thailand showed the Court that the 1962 Judgment was clear and that Thailand already implemented the obligations contained therein. It also countered with solid evidence against Cambodia’s claim that the Court had recognized the line in the “Annex I map” as boundary to determine the Temple’s vicinity, and maintained that Cambodia had never disputed the Thai Cabinet’s line in effect approximates the Temple’s vicinity.


-- NNT 2013-10-11

[Pib]

Summary: the court has important decisions to make; other decisions which are more emotion than substance will need to wait a little longer.

[siampolee]

It's a fine lesson on how the judicial process should work. No hasty judgement, all aspects and evidence examined in depth followed up by an in depth series of discussions by those sitting in judgement on the matter so as to reach a proper final decision.

No twenty four hour decisions on serious constitutional and national issues along with democratic issues as we so often see in some unnamed country

[manarak]

isn't the verdict expected today?

(in fact it was expected 90 minutes ago?)

[CantSpell]

Pretty strange news as other source says verdict has been delivered...

[harrry]

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=1&case=151&code=ct2&p3=5

This is the judgement today for provisional measures.

[Thai at Heart]

Please don't tell me he has basically made a bare faced lie whilst the verdict is being read?

What an absolute farce

[Sunderland]

Mmmmmm ... the story above is dated 11 October, not 11 November.

[Thaddeus]

The OP is from last month.

[Thaddeus]

Suggest locking this thread, it will only cause confusion.

[mrtoad]

Please don't tell me he has basically made a bare faced lie whilst the verdict is being read?

What an absolute farce

Surely Surapong is a guy that can be trusted?

[GentlemanJim]

Suggest locking this thread, it will only cause confusion.

Correct, the thread is causing massive confusion.

[smartconsulting]

Regardless if the story was written last month or this month it is clearly wrong because the verdict was delivered today not next year!

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[ggold]

Not according to the BBC

Cambodia should have sovereignty over disputed land around the Preah Vihear temple on the border with Thailand, the UN's highest court has ruled.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24897805

[Scott]

Topic closed.

Topic here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/680905-icj-begins-reading-verdict-of-preah-vihear-dispute/