SISAKET PROVINCE , Thailand ( CNN ) -- The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will meet Monday in an effort to resolve a week-long military standoff over an ancient border temple that sits on disputed land , Thailand 's prime minister said Thursday . Cambodian Buddhist monks walk at Preah Vihear temple on Monday . The meeting will take place in Siem Reap , Cambodia one day after Cambodia 's general election on Sunday , Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told CNN . An eight-hour meeting between Thai and Cambodian officials ended earlier this week with both sides agreeing on only one point : that troops each country has amassed at the site of the Preah Vihear temple will not fire on each other , the Thai News Agency reported . The site of Monday 's meeting is closer to the better-known Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia . For now , the countries are seeking regional intervention from their Southeast Asian neighbors . Foreign ministers of the 10 countries that comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) are meeting in Singapore this week . Sundaravej spoke to his Cambodian counterpart , Hun Sen , on Thursday to arrange next week 's high-level meeting . He said Hun agreed to stop pursuing the issue at the U.N. Security Council . Cambodia had sent a letter to the council to call attention to the standoff . As a result , the Security Council postponed a meeting planned for next week on the tensions , the council 's president , Vietnamese ambassador Le Luong Minh , said Thursday . The dispute is over an 11th century temple to which Cambodia and Thailand both lay claim . It sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the Thai side . The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962 . Thailand claims , however , that the 1.8 square mile ( 4.6 sq . km ) area around it was never fully demarcated . Thailand says the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia -- a map that places the temple and surrounding area in Cambodian territory . This month , the U.N. approved Cambodia 's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- places that have outstanding cultural value . The decision reignited tensions , with some in Thailand fearing it would make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple . Opposition parties in Thailand used the issue to attack the government , which initially backed the heritage listing . Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , who has been in power since the mid-1980s , has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections . The current flare-up began July 15 , when Cambodian guards briefly detained three Thais who crossed into the area . Once they were let go , the three refused to leave the territory . Cambodia claims Thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers . Thailand denies that , saying its troops are deployed in Thai territory . CNN Producer Kocha Olarn contributed to this report .
Two nations involved in disagreement over ancient temple . Talks next week will be aimed at resolving military standoff . Score: 6