Gov’t forms OCA committee

Thailand and Cambodia are edging closer to rekindling negotiations over the long-contested, and presumably lucrative, Overlapping Claims Area (OCA) in the Gulf of Thailand. State-owned media, Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), yesterday reported that the Cambodian government had established a committee charged with negotiating the development of oil resources in the OCA with the Thai government. Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and Var Kim Hong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, will chair the committee, according to AKP. Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem will claim the position as vice chairman. …

Eddie Morton
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