THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Cambodia asked the United Nations’ highest court Monday to clarify a 50-year-old ruling on ownership of a 1,000-year-old temple near its border with Thailand, warning that maintaining the status quo would be a threat to peace between the Southeast Asian neighbors.
The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the Preah Vihear temple stands in Cambodia, but Thailand says it did not draw definitive boundaries around the World Heritage-listed site and the Southeast Asian neighbors’ armies have repeatedly clashed there in recent years.
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