The United States has announced a package of $45 million in assistance to Cambodia and Thailand designed to support implementation of the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords and help consolidate a fragile truce after months of border clashes.

Washington’s move, disclosed by Michael DeSombre, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs during a visit to the region, reflects renewed American engagement in Southeast Asian stability and development efforts.

Funding will be allocated across several strategic areas to advance peace and recovery.

Approximately $15 million is earmarked for border stabilisation to aid communities affected by the conflict and to support displaced persons, while $10 million will be dedicated to demining and clearing unexploded ordnance along contested frontier zones.

A further $20 million will back programmes aimed at combating online scams, drug trafficking and transnational crime — activities that have had social and economic repercussions in both countries and target citizens beyond the region.

The assistance announcement comes amid heightened diplomatic activity following clashes that resumed late last year after the collapse of an earlier ceasefire, which had been brokered in July by U.S. President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

At the end of December, Thai and Cambodian defence ministers agreed to a new ceasefire, halting at least twenty days of intense fighting that resulted in more than one hundred deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides.

DeSombre’s meetings with senior officials in Bangkok and Phnom Penh on Friday and Saturday are intended to focus on translating the peace accords into practical measures for lasting stability and prosperity.