By Panu Wongcha-um

Thailand ‍and Cambodia have agreed to halt weeks of ​fierce border clashes, the worst fighting in years ⁠between the Southeast Asian countries that has included fighter jets sorties, exchange of rocket fire and artillery barrages.

“Both sides agree to maintain current troop ‌deployments without further ​movement,” their defence ministers said on Saturday in ‍a joint statement on the ceasefire, to take effect at noon local time.

“Any reinforcement would heighten tensions and negatively affect long-term efforts to resolve the situation,” according ​to the statement released on ‌social media by Cambodia’s Defence Ministry.

The agreement, signed by Thai ​Defence Minister Natthaphon Nakrphanit and his Cambodian counterpart ‍Tea Seiha, ended 20 days of fighting that has killed at least 101 people ​and displaced ​more than ​half a million on both ​sides.

The clashes were reignited in early December after a breakdown in a ceasefire that US President Donald Trump had helped broker to halt a previous round of fighting in July.