Thailand’s Cabinet on May 5 approved the termination of a 2001 Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia that was supposed to provide a bilateral framework on resolving overlapping maritime territorial claims.<br /><br />Cambodia said it regretted the decision but would cooperate on continuing to resolve the issue.<br /><br />The two governments had in 2001 signed the agreement, called MOU 44, to peacefully pursue maritime boundary delimitation and provide a framework for jointly managing marine resources in accordance with international law but they failed to make any progress after five rounds of talks over the past two decades.<br /><br />WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news<br />SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar<br />LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
