Thailand and Cambodia have agreed a peace deal to mark the end of a conflict earlier in the year as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul attended a signing ceremony overseen by US President Donald Trump in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Posting aboard Air Force One en route to Kuala Lumpur for the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, on his Truth Social platform, Trump had declared: “I am on my way to Malaysia, where I will sign the great Peace Deal, which I proudly brokered between Cambodia and Thailand. Sadly, the Queen Mother of Thailand has just passed away. I send my condolences to the Great People of Thailand. I will be seeing their wonderful Prime Minister when we land. In order to accommodate everyone for this major event, we will be signing the Peace Deal immediately upon arrival. See you soon! President DJT”

He did so not long after he arrived.

The deal follows a violent five-day confrontation in July along the Thailand-Cambodia border, during which artillery and air strikes reportedly caused dozens of deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands. Malaysia, currently chairing ASEAN, and the US intervened diplomatically to broker a ceasefire in later the same month.

According to Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, the joint declaration contains key elements such as withdrawal of heavy weapons from border zones, the removal of land-mines, and the establishment of an ASEAN observer team to monitor compliance, The Star of Malaysia reported ahead of the ceremony.

Not long after the signing ceremony Trump put his business hat on and said "We do transactions, lots of them, with both nations as long as they live in peace," according to the BBC. "And I really feel that when we make deals, we see two countries that we do a lot of business with... we have to use that business to make sure they don't get into wars" he added.