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Thai DPM Suthep visits Thai-Cambodian border area
BANGKOK, Jan 12 (TNA) - Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban is paying a visit to Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket Province on Wednesday (Jan 12) to inspect a reforestation project along the Thai-Cambodian border in Kanthararak District.
Suthep, who oversees national security, said that his inspection trip to the border area has nothing to do with border issues or relations between Thailand and Cambodia, but it is aimed to look into progress of the reafforestation project in honour of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The Democrat deputy premier, who was accompanied by Thai Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha, insisted that his visit to the border area has also no linkage to a judicial inquiry on additional espionage charges against two of seven Thai detainees in Phnom Penh--scheduled for today. The two detainees are Veera Somkwamkid, a leading activist of the Thai Patriots Network aligned with the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), and his secretary Ratree Pipatanapaiboon.
The deputy prime minister acknowledged that the Thai government has assigned the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be its primary organ to assist the seven Thai detainees in Cambodia, including a Bangkok MP of the ruling Democrat Party, Panich Vikitsreth, who were all charged with illegal entry and illegal trespass on a Cambodian military zone.
A bail request was submitted by lawyers of the seven Thai detainees to the Cambodian court yesterday and it will take about five days for the Phnom Penh court to consider and decide on the request, resulting in the seven Thai nationals' continued stay in the Prey Sar Prison in the Cambodian capital in the meantime. (TNA)
Suthep, who oversees national security, said that his inspection trip to the border area has nothing to do with border issues or relations between Thailand and Cambodia, but it is aimed to look into progress of the reafforestation project in honour of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The Democrat deputy premier, who was accompanied by Thai Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha, insisted that his visit to the border area has also no linkage to a judicial inquiry on additional espionage charges against two of seven Thai detainees in Phnom Penh--scheduled for today. The two detainees are Veera Somkwamkid, a leading activist of the Thai Patriots Network aligned with the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), and his secretary Ratree Pipatanapaiboon.
The deputy prime minister acknowledged that the Thai government has assigned the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be its primary organ to assist the seven Thai detainees in Cambodia, including a Bangkok MP of the ruling Democrat Party, Panich Vikitsreth, who were all charged with illegal entry and illegal trespass on a Cambodian military zone.
A bail request was submitted by lawyers of the seven Thai detainees to the Cambodian court yesterday and it will take about five days for the Phnom Penh court to consider and decide on the request, resulting in the seven Thai nationals' continued stay in the Prey Sar Prison in the Cambodian capital in the meantime. (TNA)
