Summary: Association of Southeast Asian Nations will
send observers to Thailand Cambodia border, where old temple is located which
is the center of dispute.
10 nation members of the ASEAN met in
Jakarta to discuss the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.
The area of conflict is the site of Preach
Vihear. The temple in the site was told to be awarded to Cambodia but Thailand
says that the area around the temple has not been clearly demarcated.
The teams will be sent to the conflict zone
to ease the conflict and prevent further clashes.
Thoughts: The Association of Southeast Asia seems to
ease the conflict that is happening between the countries in Southeast Asia.
They are trying to ease the conflict between the Cambodia and Thailand. They
are both part of this multi-governmental organization. Just looking at this
conflict there is no problems or negativity of multi-governmental
organizations. They are present to regulate the things that happen between the
countries that are part of the organization. In this case, they are trying to
stop the conflict between two countries which could be an act of peace making. I
did not know about this organization before. I think that this is like the small
UN that operates in South East Asia.
Your article is very similar to what I have found. It is very interesting to see what ASEAN had done to create peace between Cambodia and Thailand. If you can read my article, ASEAN was also in charge of the dispute of South China Sea and this community tried very hard to negotiate with China to equally distribute the islands and create peace among Asian countries.
ReplyDeleteDavid, in some sense I agree with you because ASEAN is an MGO much like the EU but they definitely do have differences. What are the main factors which separate these two different MGOs?
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