Siem reap: Cambodia has announced that Thailand has requested a postponement of the special Joint Border Committee (JBC) meeting, proposing to reschedule it for the second or third week of January in Siem Reap.

According to Thai News Agency, the Khmer Times reported that the meeting, initially planned for the first week of January 2026, was set at Cambodia's request on January 28, 2025. However, the Thai side has postponed it, citing the necessity to await internal domestic processes. In response, Cambodia has reiterated its request, through a verbal memorandum dated January 5, 2026, for the meeting to be held in Siem Reap during the second or third week of January. The objective is to address several border-related issues.

The agenda for the meeting includes discussions on surveying and demarcating borders, addressing the destruction of Cambodian homes and property, and lifting the prohibition on Cambodian civilians returning to their homes. Additionally, the meeting aims to focus on surveying and temporarily demarcating boundaries between specific markers in Chok Chey and Prey Chan villages in Banteay Meanchey Province, as well as in Bueng Rieng and Kam Rieng communes in Battambang Province.

Further discussions will involve establishing temporary boundary markers in areas numbered 33-37, which include the Takuan Swamp and other border areas in Pursat Province. A joint survey team is also expected to be sent to survey and demarcate borders in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding from the 6th Cambodia-Thailand Joint Meeting on Land Border Demarcation, held on June 15, 2025, in Phnom Penh.