Thailand and Cambodia: Once more, with feeling | The Economist
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NEARLY 100 years after French cartographers drew a border between the kingdom of Siam and the French protectorate of Cambodia, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ruled that a one-square-kilometre patch of a scrubland surrounding the ancient temple of Preah Vihear is, along with the temple itself, Cambodian.
The UN’s highest court did however reject Cambodia’s further claim to the remainder of the disputed 4.6-square-kilometre area. That little patch’s fate, like another 100km stretch of border, is now likely to be determined through negotiations.