The Thai-Cambodian GBC meeting at the permanent Ban Phak Kat border checkpoint has concluded. A conditional ceasefire agreement is expected to be signed, with a 72-hour monitoring period. An official statement is pending.
On 27 December 2025 GMT+7, reporters reported that the 3rd special joint session of the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC) was held at the permanent Ban Phak Kat border checkpoint, Pong Nam Ron District, Chanthaburi Province. This location faces Ban Okom, Slak Khao District, Pailin Province, Cambodia. The meeting aimed to discuss ending the fighting and resulted in signing a conditional ceasefire agreement.
Activities began at 09:35 at the Marine Ranger Unit 4 headquarters building. The Thai GBC chair, General Natthaphon Nakpanich, Minister of Defense, and the Cambodian GBC chair, General Tea Seiha, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Cambodia, represented their sides. They held a Four-Eyes meeting, a two-on-two discussion, lasting about half an hour, concluding at 10:05.
Afterward, the Thai and Cambodian GBC chairs proceeded to a temporary tent set up midway at the border checkpoint between the two countries to hold the full GBC meeting and sign the meeting results.
Following the signing and file exchanges, which took about 10 minutes and ended at 10:20, no joint statement was made on site. Each side dispersed to make their own announcements. The Thai GBC chair traveled to the Chatrium Hotel, approximately 40 kilometers from the Ban Phak Kat permanent border checkpoint, to give a statement. Details of the agreement signed by the two GBC chairs remain undisclosed, but reports indicate it is a conditional ceasefire with a 72-hour monitoring period. ASEAN observer teams were present throughout the signing.
Over the past three days—from 24 to 26 December—the GBC secretaries from both sides, General Natthapong Prao-kaew, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Thai Armed Forces and Thai GBC Secretary Chair, and Major General Nyam Boraden, Cambodian GBC Secretary Chair, held discussions and proposed revisions to the agreement. After several amendments, the sixth draft was finalized.
Reports say the sixth draft includes the ceasefire agreement with a 72-hour monitoring period. All provisions remain within the framework of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Declaration, signed by the Thai and Cambodian Prime Ministers on 26 October. That signing was witnessed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
The four points of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Declaration, jointly signed by Thailand and Cambodia on 26 October, include:
1. Withdrawal of heavy weapons from the border area.
2. Clearance of explosive devices.
3. Cooperation to combat scammers.
4. Joint management of overlapping areas to prevent future conflicts.