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The ruling party says that it has downgraded links with Cambodia after a terrestrial mine incident that injured a Thai soldier.
Thailand recalled its ambassador to Cambodia and will expel the ambassador of Cambodia, said the Thai Pheu Party Government, following a terrestrial mine incident who injured a Thai soldier along the Contested border Between the two countries.
The Thai Foreign Ministry has filed an official demonstration with Cambodia, saying that the land mines found in the region were newly deployed and had not been encountered in previous patrols, the party on social networks announced on Wednesday.
Thailand has downgraded diplomatic relations with Cambodia, he said.
The Thai Foreign Ministry said that he had not yet been informed of the decision to recall the Thai envoy and the plan to expel the Cambodia ambassador.
The government has also ordered the closure of all border control points under the jurisdiction of the second army of Thailand, said Pheu Thai party.
“It is strictly forbidden to enter these border areas,” he said.
A long -standing territorial row in an area known as the emerald triangle, where the borders of the two countries and the Laos meet, meet in military clashes in May which left a Dead Cambodian soldier.
Since then, the two parties have exchanged beards and reprisal tat-tat reprisals.
In the terrestrial mine incident on Wednesday, the Thai soldier injured himself and lost his right leg, said the Thai Pheu party.
Earlier, Thailand accused Cambodia of having placed terrestrial mines on the Thai side of the border area disputed after three soldiers were injured, but Phnom Penh denied the complaint and said that the soldiers had turned the agreed routes and launched a mine that remains of the decades of war.
The Thai authorities said that the soldiers had been injured, one losing one foot by a land mine while he was on patrol on July 16 on the Thai side of the disputed border area between Ubon Ratchathani and the province of Preah Vihear of Cambodia.
The Cambodia Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that new mines had been planted and said in a statement on Monday that Thai soldiers have moved away from the patrol routes agreed in the Cambodian territory and in areas that contain unplodced land mines.
The country is strewn with terrestrial mines posed during the decades of war.
The continuous border litigation embellished the relations between the two countries, which caused the closure of border passages, and Cambodia blocking imports of fuel and gas, as well as fruits and vegetables, Thailand.
He also sparked an internal political crisis in Thailand, where Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suspended from his functions while waiting for an ethics investigation on his conduct during the row.
A diplomatic call between Paetongtarn and Hun Sen, the former long -standing leader of Cambodia and father of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, was disclosed On the Cambodian side, causing a judicial investigation.
Last week, Hun Manet announced that Cambodia would begin to conscript civilians next year, activating a long -term compulsory bill.
He said that tensions with Thailand meant a necessary conscription and that the defense budget can also be increased.
