A senior US State Department official said on Friday that the United States, which was instrumental in ending border conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia last year, will provide the two Southeast Asian nations with $45 million (€38 million) in aid to help ensure regional stability and prosperity.
The declaration was made during an online media briefing in Bangkok by US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Michael DeSombre, who was meeting with senior Thai officials to discuss the implementation of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord, a ceasefire that was signed in October of last year.
The United States now has an additional opportunity to collaborate with both nations to advance regional security and further our objectives in a safer, stronger, and more affluent Indo-Pacific as a result of the peace being restored at the Thai-Cambodian border, according to DeSombre.
He is expected to meet with senior Cambodian authorities in Phnom Penh, the nation’s capital, on Saturday. The US “will be providing $15 million (€12 million) for border stabilisation to help communities recover and to support displaced persons; $10 million (€8 million) in mining and unexploded ordinance extraction operations; and $20 million (€17 million) for initiatives that will help both countries battle scam operations and drug trafficking, among many other programmes,” DeSombre stated.
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