Bangkok Post – Activists urge navy to protect sovereignty

A group of activists is calling on the navy to protect the country’s maritime sovereignty after voicing concerns over ongoing negotiations between Thailand and Cambodia on overlapping areas that both countries claim in the Gulf of Thailand.

The group — calling itself the Student and Peoples Network for Thailand Reform and led by Pichit Chaimongkol — turned up yesterday at the Royal Thai Navy (RTP) headquarters to hand a letter to the navy commander, calling on him to protect the country’s maritime territory.

It said Cambodia made a unilateral delineation of the continental shelf by splitting Koh Kood in Trat province in the middle without any dispute from Thailand under the Franco-Siamese treaty in…