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Thailand Reports New Clash at Cambodian Border

   VOA News  February 15, 2011

   Thailand  officials  say a soldier was wounded in fresh fighting along
   the  border  with  Cambodia early Tuesday, just hours after the United
   Nations Security Council urged "maximum restraint" by both sides.
   Cambodian officials say they are not aware of any skirmish.
   Thai  officials said Cambodian forces threw grenades across the border
   in the area near Preah Vihear temple where four days of deadly clashes
   took   place   earlier   this  month.   An  army  spokesman,  Sunsern
   Kaewkumnerd,  told  news  agencies  that  one soldier was wounded by a
   grenade explosion.
   But  Cambodian  military  officials  in the border area said there had
   been no clash, and Reuters news agency quoted a Thai hospital official
   saying the wounded soldier appeared to have stepped on a landmine.
   The  incident  reflects  continued  tensions  following  an appearance
   Monday  before  the  U.N. Security Council by the foreign ministers of
   both Thailand and Cambodia.
   Council  President  Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti of Brazil, which chairs
   the  rotating  presidency,  said  afterward the Council had urged both
   sides  to  observe  a  permanent  cease-fire along the border where at
   least 10 people have been killed.
   Each  side blames each other for starting the fighting, but there have
   been  no  independent  witness  accounts  from the site to clarify the
   situation.
   The  fighting  took place near disputed land surrounding Preah Vihear,
   an 11th-century temple which has been declared a World Heritage Site.
   In  1962,  the International Court of Justice in The Hague awarded the
   temple to Cambodia.  But Thai nationalists rejected the ruling, which
   did  not  clarify  the  status of the land immediately surrounding the
   site. Â
   Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday his government would
   tell the Security Council there was no need for outside mediation.

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