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Thailand to join UN maritime arbitration with Cambodia

Demonstrators wave a giant flag during a rally held in August 2025 in Bangkok to demand the cancellation of two agreements between Thailand and Cambodia related to contested land and sea boundaries. The latter, signed in 2001 (2544 in the Buddhist calendar) and popularly known MoU 44, was cancelled by the Anutin Charnvirakul government this year. The fate of MoU 43, signed in 2000, remains undecided. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

Thailand said on Friday it would join ‌a UN arbitration process chosen by Cambodia to resolve a decades-long maritime boundary dispute, but it has put on hold for now other two-way efforts to settle their contested borders.

This week Cambodia launched a compulsory conciliation process under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), after Bangkok decided last month to unilaterally end a ​2001 framework pact for talks on ⁠a disputed maritime belt.

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