Thai and Cambodian leaders meet in Malaysia for ceasefire talks with U.S., China at table
The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand were meeting in Malaysia on Monday to try to reach a ceasefire deal on the fifth day of their fierce border conflict, amid an international effort to halt the fighting.
The Southeast Asian neighbours waging their deadliest conflict in more than a decade accuse each other of starting the fighting last week, before escalating it with heavy artillery bombardment.
Photographs from the Thai and Malaysian governments showed the Chinese and U.S. ambassadors to Malaysia attending Monday’s meeting in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, held at the residence of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who chairs the ASEAN regional bloc.
“The purpose of this meeting is to achieve an immediate ‘ceasefire’, initiated by President Donald Trump and agreed to by the Prime Ministers of Cambodia and Thailand,” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said in a post on X.
Hun Manet posted photographs of the meeting, showing a U-shaped formation of tables, with himself and the Thai premier seated opposite each other, Anwar at a head table and Chinese and U.S. officials at separate tables behind Anwar.
Anwar had proposed ceasefire talks soon after the border dispute erupted into conflict on Thursday, and China and the United States also offered to assist in negotiations.
