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Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said that Bangkok will cease all other bilateral talks while mediation is in progress.
A view of Bang Bao Bay on the Thai island of Koh Kut at sunset.
Thailand says that it will join a U.N. arbitration process to resolve a maritime boundary dispute with Cambodia, but expressed regret at Phnom Penh’s decision to seek international mediation for the dispute.
Last week, Cambodia officially notified Thailand that it was seeking compulsory conciliation under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to resolve a long-running maritime border dispute in the Gulf of Thailand. This came after Bangkok unilaterally withdrew from a 2001 agreement with Cambodia that established a framework for joint offshore energy exploration and the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the area.
