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ASEAN summit fails to resolve Thailand, Cambodia conflict

May 09, 2011 00:00:00


JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters): Southeast Asian leaders failed to achieve any breakthrough on Sunday to end deadly border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that overshadowed a regional summit in Jakarta that had been supposed to showcase progress toward economic integration. The clashes around crumbling Hindu temples in disputed areas have starkly illustrated the tensions between countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) that could derail plans to create a single economic community by 2015, and the apparent inability of the bloc to deal with disagreements.

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