ICJ backs Cambodia's claim to whole of border temple promontory
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Bangkok/Phnom Penh (dpa) - The ICJ on Monday confirmed PhnomPenh's sovereignty over the whole of a disputed promontory bearing aCambodian temple on the border with Thailand.
The decision was welcomed in Cambodia, which claims a4.6-kilometre area around the temple it says is needed to access theWorld Heritage site.
"This is the victory of all the nation and the reward to thepolitical maturity of the current Royal government of Cambodia,"Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said on his Facebook page.
The court did not specify precisely how the area in the rulingmaps onto that claimed by Cambodia, saying only that it shouldcorrespond with the natural promontory, and that the border line didnot have to follow the watershed, as Thailand has argued.
