BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s prime minister said on Friday that his government will propose a referendum on whether to revoke two agreements on the demarcation of its border with Cambodia as part of a plan to address a simmering dispute with its neighbour.
Thailand and Cambodia have bickered for decades over undemarcated points along their 817-km (508-mile) land border.
Tensions exploded into a deadly five-day conflict in July – the worst fighting between the two countries in over a decade – that killed at least 48 people and temporarily displaced hundreds of thousands on both sides.
For years, the two countries have relied on an agreement signed in 2000 that provides a framework on joint survey and demarcation of the land boundary.
Another agreement, signed in 2001, provides a framew