ASEAN's Interim Observer Team Visits Thai Border to Survey Situation

Sarot Meksophawannakul

The Interim Observer Team (IOT), composed of 14 members from eight countries—Brunei, Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam—led by the Malaysian military attaché to Bangkok, has traveled to a border area for an official visit. The team visited the 1st Army Area Operations Center (Burapha Task Force) to learn the facts about the situation in the villages of Ban Nong Chan and Ban Nong Ya Kaeo, located in Non Mak Mun Subdistrict, Sa Kaeo Province. The visit was conducted in accordance with a memorandum of understanding resulting from the meeting of the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC).