Phnom penh: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a statement expressing the Royal Government of Cambodia's grave concern about several media reports quoting statements by Thailand's leadership indicating that Thailand has suspended the implementation of the Joint Declaration between the Prime Ministers of Cambodia and Thailand.
According to Agence Kampuchea Presse, the Joint Declaration was signed and witnessed by H.E. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and H.E. Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia and ASEAN Chair, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 26, 2025.
The statement released this evening reports that a landmine explosion on Nov. 10, 2025, injuring two Thai soldiers in the Cambodia-Thailand border area of Phnom Trop, which lies in the vicinity of the Temple of Preah Vihear of Cambodia, has been cited as the reason for Thailand's suspension of the Joint Declaration. This suspension also includes the cancellation of the announced release on Nov. 12, 2025, of 18 Cambodian soldiers still in Thailand's detention.
The Royal Government of Cambodia categorically denies the allegations by Thailand that new landmines have been laid by Cambodia at the border. It is emphasized that most minefields from nearly three decades of Cambodia's civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s along the Cambodia-Thailand border have not yet been cleared due to difficult terrains and the un-demarcated status of the border areas.
The statement also reaffirms Cambodia's continued commitment to implementing the Joint Declaration, which was signed amidst much applaud from the international community. Cambodia, as a devoted advocate for and state party to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, insists that it has never used any new landmines and will never do so.