Thailand and Cambodia hope a meeting of their Defence Ministers next month will help rebuild cross-border relations after two years of tensions and armed clashes. Thai Defence Minister General Yutthasak Sasiprapha and Cambodia’s deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, General Tea Banh, will co-chair a meeting of the general border committee in Phnom Penh on September 8. Conflicts have focused the 11th century Preah Vihear Hindu temple, with both Thailand and Cambodia accusing the other of acts of aggression and shelling of smaller Hindu temple sites. Some 18 people were killed in the fighting and thousands of others fled their homes. Both Cambodia and Thailand laid claims to the temple area. A 1962 World Court ruling awarded the temple to Cambodia but did not adjudicate on surrounding lands on the Thai side of the border. In 2008 Cambodia had the temple declared a World Heritage site.