President Trump on Sunday applauded a new ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand while also taking a swing at the United Nations (UN).
“I am pleased to announce that the breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia will stop momentarily, and they will go back to living in PEACE, as per our recently agreed to original Treaty. I want to congratulate both great leaders on their brilliance in coming to this rapid and very fair conclusion,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Earlier this month, the president said he had talked with Thai and Cambodian leaders and that they had agreed to go back to a ceasefire in the wake of border clashes.
“With all of the wars and conflicts I have settled and stopped over the last eleven months, EIGHT, perhaps the United States has become the REAL United Nations, which has been of very little assistance or help in any of them, including the disaster currently going on between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump said in his Sunday post. “The United Nations must start getting active and involved in WORLD PEACE!”
On Saturday, a fresh ceasefire deal between the two South Asian countries went into effect. The Associated Press reported that the three-day ceasefire deal requires Thailand to hand over 18 Cambodian soldiers and get rid of landmines along their border.
“The ceasefire will be monitored and observed for 72 hours to confirm that it is real and continuous,” Thai Defense Minister Nattaphon Narkphanit said previously. “Once the situation stabilizes, civilians will be able to safely return to their homes.”
The ceasefire comes amid Trump’s continued efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the president displaying optimism Sunday on his way to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I do believe that we have the makings of a deal that’s good for Ukraine, good for everybody,” Trump said, with the president adding that’s “very important. There’s nothing more important in my book.”
