Cambodia credits US President Donald Trump for brokering Thai border truce, nominates him for Nobel Peace Prize after he sharply reduced tariffs.
Thailand denies ceasefire violation claims by Cambodia ahead of key talks
Cambodia has joined Pakistan and Israel in nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, crediting the US president with “visionary and innovative diplomacy” that ended border clashes with Thailand.
A letter from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Thursday addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee said he wished to nominate Trump “in recognition of his historic contributions in advancing world peace”.
Cambodia and Thailand saw five days of hostilities that killed at least 43 people last month as a territorial dispute boiled over into cross-border combat. More than 300,000 were displaced by the conflict that started with small arms fire and quickly escalated into heavy artillery and rocket fire, then Thailand’s deployment hours later of an F-16 fighter jet for air strikes.
