(Bangkok News) Cambodia Prime Minister Hongmanet will visit Thailand on Wednesday (February 7).
Thailand and Cambodia have a problem of overlapping sovereignty in Thailand's Bay. The waters of Thailand have reached 24,000 square kilometers. The two parties have hoped to develop potential oil and natural gas resources in this area for many years, but the negotiations began for this has not progressed.
Although the Prime Minister of Thailand hopes to develop oil and gas resources with controversial sea areas with Cambodia, he also faces the conservative internal pressure of the government to talked about the work of the community and solve the problem of sovereignty.
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Thai Public Television reports that the proven natural gas resources in Thailand will be exhausted, and officials and experts in the energy field call on the government to give clear instructions to let them jointly develop related sea areas and Cambodia negotiations.Therefore, when Hongmanet visited Thailand as a Prime Minister on Wednesday, social morality he was expected to discuss this issue with Hongma Na.
Social Germany mentioned in Parliament in early January that he would promote negotiation with Cambodia to benefit the people of Thailand and Cambodia.He said: "We have resources worth trillions of baht. We should reach an agreement for the common interests of each other and the well -being of the people."
However, conservatives led by the above members of Gan Nuan strongly opposed that the government should not negotiate with Cambodia on the development of oil and gas resources before solving the sovereignty dispute in the sea.
He recently posted on Facebook that he would ask this question in Congress and question the government led by the Thai party.He emphasized: "I have no opinion on the government's negotiations with Cambodia to jointly develop and share Thailand's Bay oil resources, but this can only be after solving sovereignty disputes."
The resources contained in the controversial seas include 500 million barrels of petroleum reserves
The seas with sovereignty disputes are expected to be as many as 11 trillion cubic feet (about 311.5 billion cubic meters) of natural gas and 500 million barrels of oil reserves.When Cambodia proposed in 1972, the western region was defined as the territorial sea of the Cambodian side. Thailand dedicated the eastern region when he proposed a counterclaim the following year.
Gan Nuan believes that if Cambodia can be persuaded to revise the proposition of the territorial sea, Thailand can obtain more sea territories.In this way, the overlapping area of the development of oil and gas resources will be reduced, and the income shared with Cambodia can also be reduced.
Gan Nuan is an important member of the People's Democratic Alliance (commonly known as the Yellow Shirt) of extreme nationalism.In 2008, Huang Jiejun launched a demonstration to protest the approved by the UNESCO to apply for Cambodia, and listed the Berry Xia Temple located on the Thai and Cambodian border as the World Cultural Heritage, which led to deteriorating the bilateral relations of Thailand and Cambodia.Bowei Xia Temple, built in the 11th century, has been the focus of Thailand and Cambodia for many years. In 1962, the Hague International Court ruled that the Berbuya Temple was owned by Cambodia. This judgment caused controversy in Thailand.Essence
However, some people do not agree with Gan Nuan's approach to sovereign disputes.Thais united the founding party party and Minister of Energy Pirapan that it is difficult to resolve territorial disputes and formulate joint development plans at the same time.For energy security, he suggested that the government give priority to the joint development of the energy plan.
Thai Prime Minister Pi Jue also believes that Thai and Cambodia currently need energy, and is now a good time for negotiations.The former Energy Minister said: "It's not time to talk about the west -of -the -seas, this problem is endless. The government should focus on the joint development energy plan."
