"Abhisit" to meet police investigators

BANGKOK, December 3 (TNA) - Thai former Democrat prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced on Saturday that he plans to meet police investigators next week to provide a detailed testimony on 13 persons killed during bloody clashes between his then government troops and red-clad National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) protesters, aligned with the Pheu Thai Party and exiled ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in Bangkok in April last year. Abhisit told journalists that he will meet the police on December 9, together with vital documents related to last year's political violence, in which a Japanese cameraman was shot dead while covering the incidents. Abhisit said he is willing to offer additional facts to the police investigators, as he wants them to have complete facts so that justice could be seen. Meanwhile, Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul acknowledged that his Pheu Thai government is close to re-issuing a passport to Thaksin, denying, however, that there is a link between the issuing of the passport and Thaksin's planned homecoming. Pheu Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is Thaksin's youngest sister, insisted that she has nothing to do with the matter and that her administration will do everything in accordance with the rule of laws. (TNA)