据海牙一个由联合国支持的调解小组称，泰国和柬埔寨已同意降低言论调门，并利用两国海军指挥官之间的热线，以避免在泰国湾一片广阔且存在争议的能源丰富海域发生冲突。该小组负责协助解决这两个邻国之间的争端。
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to dial down the rhetoric and use a hotline between their navy commanders to avoid flashpoints over a vast contested patch of energy-rich seas in the Gulf of Thailand, according to a UN-backed mediation panel at The Hague tasked with helping to settle the dispute between the neighbours.
这两个东南亚国家还就长达800公里（500英里）的陆地边界划界问题争执了数十年；去年当地发生的冲突导致双方数十人死亡，并冻结了价值数十亿美元的跨境贸易。
The Southeast Asian countries have also squabbled for decades over the demarcation of their 800km (500-mile) land border, where clashes last year killed scores on both sides and froze cross-border trade worth billions of dollars.
尽管去年12月达成的脆弱停火在边境沿线得以维持，但曼谷和金边之间的关系已跌至谷底，双方都指责对方在冲突中针对平民，并指责对方间歇性违反停火协议。
While an uneasy ceasefire agreed in December holds along the frontier, relations between Bangkok and Phnom Penh have plunged to a nadir, with both accusing the other of targeting civilians during the conflict and intermittent breaches of the truce.
在敌意加剧之际，围绕海湾海底的相互竞争的主权主张不断升级，该海域拥有价值估计达3000亿美元的石油和天然气储量。泰国于5月取消了与柬埔寨之间管理这些海域主张的双边渠道。
Amid the rancour, competing claims have escalated over the Gulf seabed which holds oil and gas reserves worth an estimated US$300 billion. Thailand scrapped a bilateral channel with Cambodia in May governing the claims to the waters.
这促使柬埔寨向《联合国海洋法公约》调解委员会提出请求，启动对这一利润丰厚海域控制权的调解程序；该委员会上个月在新加坡主持了相关会议。
That triggered Cambodia’s request to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’s conciliation commission, hosted in Singapore last month, to start the mediation process over control of the lucrative waters.
上周，在海牙和平宫举行的常设仲裁法院（PCA）第二轮会谈讨论了这片2.7万平方公里（1.04万平方英里）楔形海域的主权主张。
A second round of talks at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) was held last week at Peace Palace at The Hague over the claims to 27,000 sq km (10,400 square miles) wedge of sea.
常设仲裁法院周一晚些时候表示，双方都展现了和平解决争端的诚意，并同意在进程继续推进的同时采取建立信任措施。
The PCA late on Monday said both sides showed good faith towards the peaceful resolution of the dispute and agreed to confidence-building measures as the process continued.
这些措施包括承诺在处理“关于海上边界以及彼此关系的公开声明时，着眼于为建设性接触创造空间，而不是向另一方施压或排除（对话）选项”。
Those included a commitment to approach “public statements on the maritime boundary and on their relationship with one another with a view to creating space for constructive engagement, rather than to generate pressure on the other party or foreclose options”.
同样，“双方承诺在公开交流和声明中保持克制，以免导致负面舆论或加剧两国人民之间的紧张关系”，并“防范可能破坏和解进程的错误信息和虚假信息”。
Equally, “both Parties will undertake to exercise restraint in public communications and statements that could contribute to negative public sentiment or heighten tension between the peoples of the two countries” and “guard against misinformation and disinformation that could undermine the conciliation”.
自去年七月陆地边界争端爆发激烈冲突以来，双边关系一直因互不信任而受阻，此举虽小但意义重大。
It is a small but significant step forward in relations that have been dogged by mistrust since the vicious battle over the land border erupted last July.
尽管身体冲突已有所缓和，但两国公众之间的社交媒体争论却愈演愈烈，民族主义冲突从泰国被指侵占柬埔寨领土，到柬埔寨据称攫取泰国传统服饰并声称其为本国所有，无所不在。
While the physical conflict has eased, a social media battle has raged between the public of both countries, with nationalist feuds flaring over everything from Thailand’s alleged encroachment onto Cambodia’s land to Cambodia’s apparent co-option of traditional Thai clothing claimed as its own.
此外，常设仲裁法院表示，两国海军司令将使用一条热线，该热线设立的目的在于“及时通报和处理海上事件，以避免可能对和解进程产生负面影响的误解和紧张局势”。
In addition, the PCA said the commanders of both nations’ navies will use a hotline set up “for the prompt notification and management of maritime incidents, so as to avoid misunderstandings and tensions that could have negative impacts on the conciliation proceedings”.
在常设仲裁法院于九月在新加坡举行的首次会议上，两国外交部长相互指责对方为侵略者和不诚实的谈判伙伴，因为他们在谈判中争夺道德和法律上的制高点——而此次谈判仅是《联合国海洋法公约》历史上第二次启动和解程序。
During the PCA’s first meeting in Singapore in September, foreign ministers of both countries painted the other nation as the aggressor and a disingenuous negotiating partner, as they jostled for the moral – and legal – high ground in the talks, which are only the second time in Unclos’ history that the conciliation process has been used.
第一次是东帝汶于2016年对澳大利亚发起的，历时近两年才得以解决。
The first, initiated by East Timor against Australia in 2016, took nearly two years to resolve.
五人组成的和解委员会由澳大利亚律师兼外交官卡特里娜·库珀担任主席。该程序不具法律约束力。
The five-member conciliation commission is chaired by Australian lawyer and diplomat Katrina Cooper. The process is not legally binding.
在第二轮讨论之后，泰国外交部表示，这些建立信任的措施将作为“指导方针，以营造有利于在和解框架下推进谈判的环境”。
After the second round of discussions, Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the confidence-building measures would act as “guidelines to foster an environment conducive to progressing discussions under the conciliation process”.
“在推进过程中，泰方希望双方能够认真落实这些[措施]，”该部门在周一晚间的一份声明中补充道。
“In moving forward, the Thai side hopes that both sides will advance these [the measures] in earnest,” the ministry added in a statement late on Monday.
柬埔寨外交部对此表示赞同，并重申“全力支持其发起的调解进程”。
Cambodia’s foreign ministry echoed the sentiments, reaffirming “its full support for the conciliation process that it initiated”.
该部在一份声明中表示：“国际法为和平解决国家间争端提供了途径。”
“International law provides the pathway for peaceful resolution of disputes between States,” it said in a statement.