President Donald Trump said Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to stop fighting, after speaking with the leaders of the two countries to urge them to end the “very unfortunate reawakening of their long-running War.”

The two Southeast Asian nations had agreed to a US-brokered truce in October, which was derailed this week with clashes erupting along the border.

Trump called Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Manet as fighting approaches the one-week mark, saying in his post that it was his “honor” to resolve what “could have evolved into a major War” between the two countries.

“I think we just did a very good job with Thailand and Cambodia, we had them stopped,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that the conflict was “in good shape.”

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