ปล. สำเนาจดหมายลาออกที่ผมให้คุณสุวิทย์เมื่อวันที่ ๒๒ มิถุนายน ๒๕๕๔
คุณสุวิทย์อ่านแล้วมาบอกผมวันที่ ๒๕ มิถุนายน ๒๕๕๔ ว่า
"ผมอ่านแล้วจดหมายของอาจารย์แรงไป กำลังร่างอันใหม่และจะไปยื่น"
(คุณสุวิทย์พูดจริงตามนี้ครับ)แต่ฉบับนี้ไม่ใช่ฉบับที่คุณสุวิทย์นำไปยื่น
ต่อมาดามโบโกว่า ผอ.ใหญ่ ยูเนสโกครับ
Thailand National Committee on the
World Heritage Convention Office of
Natural Resources and Environment
Policy and Planning 60/1 Soi
Phibulwattana7 RamaVI
Rd Phayathai , Bangkok 10400 Thailand
(เพิ่มเติม) ตำแหน่งผู้อำนวยการใหญ่องค์การยูเนสโก
His Majesty’s Government of the Kingdom of Thailand had made an
express reservation regarding whatever rights Thailand had, or may have
in the future, to recover the Temple of Preah Vihear from Cambodia since
the 6th day of July 1962 A.D. and registered a protest against the
unjustified decision of the International Court of Justiceawarding the
Temple of Preah Vihear to Cambodia by estoppels. Such letter was issued
on behalf of His Majesty’s Government and was signed by H.E. Thanat
Khoman, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand and addressed to
H.E. U Thant, then Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations. The
intention that I, Mr.Suwit Khunkitti, as Head of the World Heritage
Committee of Thailand, made reference to the said letter was to bring
forward to the 35th World Heritage Committee (WHC) Meeting and expecting
the total understanding on the part of WHC and UNESCO regarding the
issue between the State Party of Thailand and the State Party of
Cambodia, provoked by the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear and
the Management Plan which violated Thailand sovereignty.
Since the 31st Meeting to this 35th Meeting, the State Party of
Cambodia has persistently invaded and encroached Thai territory
particularly all along the Cambodia-Thailand borderline. I, as a Royal
Thai Government representative and on behalf of the Thai people, express
grave concern on the action of the State Party of Cambodia deploying
military troops as well as encouraging civilians to encroach the
territory of Thailand.
The past 4 WHC resolutions have
caused a tremendous rupture between the two State Parties relations
that leads the conflict to the international stage and disunion amongst
each allied countries. There have been several clashes resulted in many
casualties and a massive unprecedented Thais evacuation. It takes away
the right to work and to pursue their livings from those who live around
the area that the WHC has designated as the Managed Area including
residents near the Preah Vihear Temple since it has become the weaponry
storage and a fierce battlefield. Rockets and artilleries were used in
the exchange of fire.
The State Party of Thailand has
been exceptionally patient and tolerant with numerous acts of the State
Party of Cambodia. Thailand has responded to these acts in civilized
manner such as submitting hundreds of official protest letters,
promulgating explanation statements to the international community,
namely UNESCO member countries, ASEAN, UNSC and even the International
Court of Justice. The State Party of Thailand wishes to explain in
detail the intent of the resignation letter from being a State Party as
follows;
- The demarcation of the Thai-Cambodia boundary had
already been done, according to the Convention 1904 A.D. and the Treaty
1907 A.D. leaving only the Temple area that used the watershed as
borderline. Consequently, this watershed bound the Temple of Preah
Vihear in Thai territory.
- The World Heritage Committee has
violated Section II of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the
World Cultural and Natural Heritage on both national and international
levels, Article 4 (Cultural Heritage must be situated on its territory
and belongs primarily to that State) , Article 5 (World Cultural
Heritage must be situated in its sovereign territory of the State
Party), and Article 6 (Fully respecting the sovereignty of the States on
whose territory the cultural and natural heritage mentioned in Articles
1 and 2 is situated). The WHC and the State Party of Cambodia both
violated the 3 cited Articles of the Convention Concerning the
Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, through the
encroachment of the territory of the State Party of Thailand and through
the support of the State Party of Cambodia’s inscription of the Temple
of Preah Vihear. Since the surrounding areas of the Temple belong to
Thailand who had exercised her sovereign rights over the territory by
designated it as National Park of Khao Phra Viharn since 2000 A.D.
without any objection whatsoever from the State Party of Cambodia.
Furthermore, the 32nd WHC resolution had solely inscribed the Temple,
excluding the surrounding areas of the Temple which according to the
Thai Administrative Court and the Thai Constitutional Court rulings
remained under Thai sovereignty. The decision of the WHC clearly
violates the State Party on the basis of invasion by granting the
territory of the State Party of Thailand to the State Party of Cambodia
in the inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear and the Management Plan
as well as adding it into the Agenda of the 35th WHC Meeting.
- The
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the Temple of Preah
Vihear case only granted the sovereign rights to Cambodia over the
Temple, not on the surrounding areas of the Temple. Furthermore, the ICJ
neither ruled on the Map, nor on the acceptance of the Map ratio
1:200000 that the State Party of Cambodia has applied as criteria in
drafting the Management Plan and the Temple of Preah Vihear inscription.
The State Party of Thailand has in vain trying to illuminate the WHC
with explanation about the consequences of the inscription of the Temple
of Preah Vihear as a World Cultural Heritage. I, as Head of the World
Heritage Committee of Thailand, the Royal Thai Government
representative, and on behalf of Thai people, have reckoned that the WHC
decision was not justified. Therefore, I, hereby, tend my resignation
from a State Party to the Convention, in accordance with Article 35
(Each State Party to this Convention may denounce the Convention.), and
with reasons given earlier in order to maintain the sovereignty and the
territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Thailand.
- The Kingdom of
Thailand has her own Constitution under the democratic regime with His
Majesty the King as the Head of State. “King” or what most Thai people
refer to “the Owner of the Land”. The King is the owner of the Land with
full executive, legislative, and judiciary power. The present King is a
King with divine virtue; He is regarded as “the Great” honored in the
international community owing to his everlasting devotion for the
well-being of the people of Thailand. In 2011, His Majesty will turn 84
and it would be inappropriate that Thai territory will be segregated
during his reign. Even though Thailand is a responsible State Party, we,
on behalf of the Thai people, cannot accept the WHC decision.
(เพิ่มเติมเอานะครับ)
( ลงนาม)
