The ministry’s press arm spoke to reporters on 4 September. Matichon, The Standard and Thairath ran the answer at three different strengths, and the ministry has published none of the three on the pages it uses for releases.
Three Bangkok papers carried the Thai foreign ministry’s answer to a charge from Cambodia’s ambassador in Paris on the morning of 4 September. Matichon ran it at 10:36, The Standard at 10:51, Thairath at 11:16. The times fix the order. They fix nothing else.
The answer came from the Department of Information, the ministry’s press arm, whose head speaks for the ministry. Matichon carries the ministry’s own account of what it did. The department gave this out further to inquiries from reporters.
Its director-general is Jaithai Upakarnnitikaset. In the wording Matichon and The Standard both carry, Thai diplomats protect, preserve and promote Thailand’s national interests fully and professionally at all times. They have not acted, that wording says, in accordance with “Cambodia’s said allegation”. The phrase is the ministry’s own.
Matichon and The Standard run that near-verbatim. They are one source, not two. Thairath, same speaker and same day, is stronger. There the said allegation is not true, and no Thai diplomat has acted in a manner that obstructs or pressures as Cambodia claims. All three carry the ministry’s view that the two countries should settle matters through bilateral channels. Thairath alone adds that they should do so rather than amplify them in other forums.
Whether the said allegation in Thairath means Cambodia’s words or the ministry’s own recasting of them does not come out of the text. Nothing reached settles which of the three wordings is the ministry’s own. The ministry’s English release page carries no text of any of this. Its Thai page for statements on the Thailand and Cambodia situation, read on 4 September, carries nothing later than 26 May. Other Thai news paths were not read. A fuller or narrower text may sit on one of them.
Luy David wrote on 1 September about the ambassador of “House No. 2”, which the Phnom Penh Post glosses as Thailand. That ambassador, he wrote, had tried to get a third country’s ambassador to talk him out of raising the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute at the Francophonie forum. The Francophonie is the grouping of states and governments that use French. Luy David wrote that he had no reason to stay quiet.
All three Thai wordings answer pressure on Cambodia. The words reached from Luy David describe an approach to him. Both are what has been reached on either side. The post has not been read whole here, and the two outlets that quote it quote different sentences.
As reached, the charge gives no name. The Phnom Penh Post’s own account calls the person the Thai ambassador in Paris. The quoted post does not. No third country and no third country’s ambassador is identified anywhere. Nothing reached gives a date, a place or a channel for the approach. No document and no words from the Thai side are produced. The charge rests on one ambassador’s post on social media.
Luy David is vice-chair of the committee drafting the final declaration, which is the text leaders adopt at the close of the summit Cambodia hosts on 15 and 16 November. Cambodia’s foreign ministry site and the state news agency, read to 4 September, carry no such charge from an office competent in foreign affairs. Neth Pheaktra said on 2 September that Cambodia would keep raising the dispute at ASEAN, the Francophonie, the United Nations and other forums while the breaches it alleges went unresolved. He holds the Information portfolio.
Two days before the denial, Air Chief Marshal Prapas Sornchaidee said Cambodia has the right to speak at every forum. He said Thailand is ready to give clarification at every forum. He also said no forum can turn a one-sided claim into an international boundary. He directs the Joint Information Centre, the Thai body that gives official information on the situation with Cambodia.
The Francophonie lists 56 full members, Cambodia among them, and 32 observers. An observer is a state that attends without full membership rights. Thailand is on the observer list. It is there on the list the Francophonie’s own conference service put out in November 2024, read here on 4 September, and on every earlier list reached.
Thailand’s published record says its foreign ministry works all year through embassies, consulates and international meetings to explain its case. That is the class of work the charge describes. Those words were reached on a copy of the page and not on the ministry’s own site. Neither Thai wording says whether any contact with a third country’s ambassador took place. This desk draws nothing from that.
No question was put here to the Thai ministry, to either embassy in Paris, to Cambodia’s foreign ministry or to the Francophonie secretariat. Nothing on this page rests on anyone’s silence.
Luy David put Thai activity in Cambodian territory to the 257th session of the Political Commission on 11 February 2026, the Francophonie organ where member governments discuss political questions. November is not the first time this has gone to the Francophonie. He told it that boundaries cannot be determined by force.
Paragraph 3 of the joint statement of 27 December 2025 sends demarcation to the Joint Boundary Commission. That is the two states’ body for marking the land boundary on the ground, and the paragraph binds both parties. Where the line runs is not in any of this.