泰国外交部长、副总理西哈萨·蓬凯特克奥周五对路透社表示，泰国欢迎美国与缅甸接触，并预计将在11月于马尼拉举行的东盟峰会上讨论如何推进对自2021年政变以来被禁止参会的成员国的处理方式。
Thailand welcomes US engagement with Myanmar and expects discussions at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' November summit in Manila on how to proceed with the member barred since the 2021 coup, Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow told Reuters on Friday.
美国与缅甸军方支持的政府两周前在东京举行了会谈，这是一个月内的第二次会晤，显示华盛顿正加快与政变后曾予以冷遇的将军们重新接触。
The United States and Myanmar's military-backed government held talks in Tokyo two weeks ago, their second meeting in a month as Washington steps up re-engagement with the generals it shunned after the coup.
他说：“我们不希望看到缅甸被孤立，不希望缅甸成为地缘政治竞争的角斗场……因此美国的接触是我们欢迎的。”
"We don't want to see Myanmar isolated, we don't want Myanmar to be an arena for geopolitical rivalry ... so the US engagement is something that we welcome," he said.
西哈萨补充说，接触“不意味着使该政权合法化”，而是旨在鼓励和平解决冲突并促成与反对派的和解。
Engagement "does not mean legitimizing the regime," but aims to encourage peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation with the opposition, Sihasak, who is also deputy prime minister, added.
他表示东盟立场出现“一定转变”，并引用缅甸总统敏昂莱最近访问老挝、柬埔寨、越南、泰国和马来西亚为例，但称马尼拉峰会是否会讨论恢复缅甸的完整代表资格尚不清楚。
He said there was "some shift in ASEAN's position," citing Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing's recent visits to Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, but said it was unclear whether the Manila summit would address restoring Myanmar's full representation.
他说：“我们将就如何推进缅甸问题进行非常实质性、非常广泛且非常深入的讨论，这是好事。”
"It's good that we're going to have a very substantive, very extensive, and very in-depth discussion on how to proceed on Myanmar," he said.
他还表示，尽管进展有限，泰国和柬埔寨有望在12至18个月内解决长期存在的陆地和海上边界争端。
He also said Thailand and Cambodia could resolve their longstanding land and maritime boundary disputes within 12 to 18 months despite limited progress.
他说：“这是可能的，一切皆有可能，”并警告必须首先建立互信、解决发生过冲突的陆地边境上的安全担忧。
"It is possible, everything is possible," he said, cautioning that confidence-building and addressing security concerns along the land border, where clashes have occurred, must come first.
柬埔寨于6月根据《联合国海洋法公约》启动调解程序以解决海上边界争端，此前泰国在5月发生致命边境冲突后终止了2001年的联合开发框架。首次会议约在一个月前举行。他说：“坦率地说，目前我们尚未取得多少进展。”
Cambodia launched a conciliation process under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in June to resolve the maritime boundary dispute, after Thailand terminated a 2001 joint development framework in May following deadly border clashes. The first meeting was held about a month ago. "Right now, we haven't achieved, to be very frank, much progress," he said.
海上争端的核心在于泰国湾约26,000平方公里区域的重叠主权声索，该区域据信蕴藏价值约3000亿美元的石油和天然气储量。他说，泰国希望先划定边界，再讨论资源共享。
The maritime dispute centers on overlapping claims to about 26,000 sq km in the Gulf of Thailand, believed to hold oil and gas reserves worth around $300 billion. Thailand wants the boundary defined before discussing resource-sharing, he said.
泰国与欧盟的自由贸易谈判已进入最后阶段，他说，如果双方有政治意愿，谈判可能在年底前结束。
Thailand-EU free-trade talks are in their final stage and could conclude by year-end if there is mutual political will, he added.