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Kasit Piromya, the Thai minister for Foreign Affairs, told reporters that the Thai government will propose to ASEAN members to set up a mechanism to resolve the border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand during the ASEAN meeting held at the end of October. If no change will occur, the ASEAN summit meeting will take place in Hua Hin, Thailand, on 22 October. Khieu Kanharith, Cambodia’s government spokesman, did not shown his reaction yet on this issue. He said: “We did not see this mechanism yet. How is this mechanism?” Nevertheless, the proposal made by Kasit Piropmya to put the border issue on the ASEAN discussion table came after Hun Xen warned that he would raise the border dispute problem at the ASEAN meeting if Bangkok still keeps on talking about the unilateral drawn map in which it showed that the 4.6 square km area surrounding Preah Vihear temple belongs to Thailand. Hun Xen rejected this unilateral map.