When Council president Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti of Brazil made the call by saying: "Members of the Security Council urge the parties to establish a permanent ceasefire and to implement it fully," the UNSC took note that (i) a war broke out, that (ii) there are losses of lives and properties, that (iii) tens of thousand of people face insecurity and uncertainty everyday, and these calamities must stopped. When the Council president added: "The idea is to work in synergy with the regional efforts - and right now regional efforts are in full force - and resolve the situation peacefully and through effective dialogue," the UNSC has lay down the modalities for "the parties" to work with, which is a "third party mediation" so intensely advocated and demanded by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
The Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa, Chairman of ASEAN graciously but vigorously took the hard and hot ball to his court by echoing the UNSC president in the following term: "obviously, this is a matter that will have to be resolved in final analysis bilaterally between the two sides but it does not mean there is not a space and a role for regional countries to play."
The modalities are set, and the rules of bilateral negations and mediation will certainly be set at the 22 February ASEAN meeting, in Indonesia. Over there, reasons, justice, rules of law will win over lies, misrepresentation, distortion of the facts, innuendo, off-base speculation and wild suggestions.
Pen Ngoeun
Senior advisor and member of the Academic Committee
Puthisastra University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Former Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Business and Economics
At Pannasastra University of Cambodia,
Former Assistant Controller at Phibro Inc
A subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., USA, until 2000
(The comments are solely the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Government of Cambodia.)
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