The clashes, which started on July 24, would have involved exchanges of shots, artillery and rocket bombings, Thailand having made air strikes inside Cambodian territory.
UN humanitarian officials have confirmed civilian victims, including children.
According to rescue partners. Temporary shelters, including schools and temples, are overcrowded, and food, shelters and medical aid are urgently necessary.
The United Nations is ready to support humanitarian efforts if requestedSpokesman Stephanie Tremblay said in a regular briefing in New York.
Protect children at any time
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) also called for the “maximum reservoir”.
June Kunugi, regional director of East Asia and Pacific – based in Bangkok – urged the two countries to protect children And the critical services on which they depend, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“” Children must be protected at any time and their safety and well-being must have priority, while schools must remain safe spaces for learning,She said.
Private meeting of the Security Council
At the UN headquarters in New York, The ambassadors have summoned themselves to a private emergency meeting of the Security advice To discuss the situation.
Representatives of Thailand and Cambodia are present, Khaled Khiari, deputy secretary general for Asia and the Pacific in the UN political affairs department (DPPA).
Private meetings of the Security Council are closed to the public, but considered an official meeting.
A long -standing dispute
THE The last major push between the two countries occurred in 2011When border days are fighting near the history Pre-vihear temple – A Unesco World Heritage Site – has made several victims on both sides.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the time had called for an immediate and verifiable ceasefire and urged the two countries to solve their dispute through dialogue, not on military means.
That climbing has followed a Building of 2008 troops Around the 11th century Hindu temple, which is on the Cambodian side of the border.
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