PHNOM PENH, Oct. 19 -- Cambodia says it and Thailand have agreed confidence-building measures in their sea dispute, but the one clause it has made public simply lets each government answer the other. Both parties, its release says, "recognize their right to make statements to protect their legitimate rights or to correct factual misinformation and disinformation."

The Cambodian foreign ministry's press release, issued late Sunday and relayed by Xinhua, closed a five-day session of the UN-backed conciliation commission in The Hague. The two governments have a record of public sparring over their land border, and TEH has followed the Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire since it was first declared.

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