The clashes, which started on 24 July, reportedly concerned exchanges of gunfire, artillery shelling and rocket hearth, with Thailand having carried out airstrikes inside Cambodian territory.
UN humanitarian officers confirmed civilian casualties, together with youngsters.
Greater than 131,000 individuals in Thailand and over 4,000 in Cambodia have been displaced, in accordance with aid companions. Short-term shelters, together with colleges and temples, are overcrowded, and meals, shelter and medical help are urgently wanted.
The United Nations stands able to assist humanitarian efforts if requested, spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay mentioned at an everyday briefing in New York.
Defend youngsters always
The UN Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) additionally appealed for “most restraint”.
June Kunugi, Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific – primarily based in Bangkok – urged each international locations to guard youngsters and the crucial companies they rely on, in keeping with their obligations beneath worldwide legislation, together with the Conference on the Rights of the Little one.
“Kids have to be protected always and their security and wellbeing have to be prioritised, whereas colleges should stay secure areas for studying,” she mentioned.
Safety Council non-public assembly
At UN Headquarters in New York, ambassadors convened for an emergency non-public assembly of the Safety Council to debate the state of affairs.
Representatives of Thailand and Cambodia have been mentioned to be in attendance, with Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-Normal for the Asia and the Pacific on the UN Division of Political Affairs (DPPA), briefing.
Non-public conferences of the Safety Council are closed to the general public, however thought of a proper assembly.
A longstanding dispute
The final main flare-up between the 2 international locations occurred in 2011, when days of border preventing close to the historic Preah Vihear temple – a UNESCO World Heritage Website – left a number of casualties on either side.
Then-Secretary-Normal Ban Ki-moon had known as for an instantaneous, verifiable ceasefire and urged each international locations to resolve their dispute by way of dialogue, not navy means.
That escalation adopted a 2008 troop build-up across the Eleventh-century Hindu temple, which sits on the Cambodian aspect of the border.
