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Published on: 11/13/2007
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Ho Bunthy, a Cambodian army commander in the area.
The sanctuary is located several hundred miles west of Preah Vihear temple, where Cambodian and Thai soldiers have been locked in a standoff for three weeks in a dispute over nearby territory.Thailand sent troops to the border area after UNESCO approved Cambodia's application to have the temple complex named a World Heritage Site.Some Thai officials say the temple's new status will jeopardize their country's claims to land adjacent to the site.About 800 troops from Cambodia and 400 from Thailand remain in the Preah Vihear area despite a tentative agreement reached by foreign ministers last week to redeploy them in an effort to ease tensions.Officials met to mediate the latest dispute in the Cambodian border town of O'Smach in Oddar Meanchey province, about 290 miles northwest of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Ho Bunthy said.