PHNOM PENH (AFP) - troops Thai and Cambodian Exchange fire on their border disputed for a ninth straight day Saturday, both sides said, cast doubt on the efforts made at the end of the conflict more bloody in the country for decades.
The latest hostilities in two ancient temples on their shared border jungle broke out a few hours only after Cambodia announced a second truce in as many days, although denied Bangkok have knowledge of a new peace agreement.
Each side has traded accusations of lack of honesty to resolve a dispute that has killed 16 people and displaced more than 85,000 civilians.
"Even if it y a recent ceasefire...". A missed the Thailand yet, ", Foreign Minister Hor Namhong of Cambodia said to journalists in Phnom Penh on Saturday."
"It shows that we cannot trust our counterpart," he said in comments that echoed those made by Thai officials a day earlier.
The last outbreak was confirmed by the two countries, but while she was followed by a lull in the fight against, front-line soldiers remained on alert.
"Clashes could occur at any time," Commander Cambodian Suos Sothea told AFP by telephone.
There is no report of new deaths, while at least 10 Thai soldiers were injured in clashes on Friday night and Saturday morning, said the army in Thailand sources.
Ministry of defence of Cambodia has accused the Thailand in a statement using grenades and mortar fire on Cambodian troops in the latest clashes.
The two neighbours were the subject of international pressure to curb rising violence.
A first attempt at truce Thursday, confirmed by the two countries, has proved ephemeral and Bangkok has contradicted the more recent claims of Phnom Penh, saying talks Friday between commanders on the ground did not constitute a real breakthrough.
"We have actually talked to the level of local agents which I hope will lead to a real ceasefire", said the spokesman for the Thai Government Panitan Wattanayagorn.
Hor Namhong returned Saturday in the Hague, where he had presented a request to the International Court of justice to clarify a decision of 1962 - on the land around the ancient temple of Preah Vihear region which has inflamed tensions between the two neighbours.
"The application of the interpretation by the Court is a way to solve the problem peacefully," he said at Phnom Penh airport.
The Court decided there are more than four decades that the temple of 900 years belonged to Cambodia, but both countries claim ownership of a surrounding area of 4.6 square kilometres (1. 8 - square - mile).
Thailand said he had hired legal counsel and would fight the case.
The stone structure was the subject of border tensions since he received the status of world heritage of the United Nations in 2008 and 10 people have died in the hostilities between the neighbours it in February.
The Thai-Cambodian border has never been fully delimited, in part because it is littered with landmines left over the years of war in Cambodia.
The current unrest is centered around two other complexes of contested temple 150 kilometres (90 miles) West of Preah Vihear although there was some fighting on the site itself on Tuesday.
Seven Thai soldiers and eight Cambodian soldiers have died since the fighting began on April 22, Bangkok, and said that a Thai civilian was also killed.
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