"Diplomacy is back in action. Now is no longer the time for the use of violence (to settle problems)," he said on the sidelines of the meeting of foreign ministers of ASEAN and Japan at the ASEAN secretariat here on Saturday.
He made the statement in response to the process of negotiations between Thailand and Cambodia in the Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary (JBC) on April 7-8 in Bogor, West Java, which has so far reached no agreement yet.
"I did not say that this is an easy matter. I do not know how long it will finish. But the important thing is that now is time for peaceful means (for settling problems)," he said.
He said the two countries had agreed on an observer from Indonesia but no deadline was set for the Indonesian observer to be placed on the Thailand-Cambodia border.
"The observer is a means in nature while our main goal is assuring stability
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