Phnom Penh: The Royal Government of Cambodia has lodged the strongest official protest against the visit of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand to the An Ses area in Choam Ksan district, Preah Vihear province on August 23, 2026.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 25, this unauthorized visit is a deliberate attempt to assert illegal claims on Cambodian sovereign territory, an area that has been illegally occupied by Thai armed forces since last year.
The Royal Government of Cambodia states that no legal rights can be derived from this illegal act. Therefore, the illegal occupation of Cambodian sovereign territory cannot be legitimized by the visit of the Thai Prime Minister.
This visit amounts to a serious violation of Cambodian sovereign territory as defined and demarcated by the 1:200,000 scale map produced by the Indochina-Siam Boundary Delimitation Commission and Point 1 of the Joint Declaration of the Third Special Meeting of the General Boundary Committee (GBC) on December 27, 2025, which expressly prohibits provocative actions that may increase tension along the border.
The Royal Government of Cambodia would like to emphasize that neither a unilaterally drawn map nor any visit based on such a map can change the internationally recognized border line.
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