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Nearly 2,000 Thais evacuated from Libya
BANGKOK, Feb 24 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Labour reported on Thursday (Feb 24) that about 2,000 Thai nationals have already been evacuated safely from violence-plagued Libya.
Thai Labour Ministry Spokesman Sutham Natheethong, who heads a coordinating committee on assisting Thai nationals, mostly workers, in Libya, said that the Thai workers had been evacuated by road and by sea from Libya. People have been evacuated only by road and by sea from Libya, as airports in the North African nation have been closed. Sutham revealed that he has coordinated with agencies concerned to provide food supply believed to sufficiently serve the evacuated Thai workers over the next one month.
For the remaining 20,000 Thai workers in Libya, the spokesman said that there had been no reports on their casualties, and that the Thai Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labour have assessed the updated situation in Libya based on the hourly basis to see whether all the remaining Thai nationals should be evacuated from the riot-ripped country.
The spokesman revealed that Thai labour authorities were set to meet representatives of all local employment firms in Bangkok Thursday afternoon to plan more evacuations of Thai workers from Libya, and that he and other Thai labour officials are scheduled to leave for Malta bordering Libya tonight to follow up the situation and to arrange for evacuation plans for the remaining Thai workers to nearby countries. Initially, four ships have reportedly been prepared for more evacuations of Thai nationals from Libya, each can carry 1,400 people. They will bring the Thai people from Benghazi and Tripoli to Malta.
Meanwhile, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva acknowledged that the situation in Libya appeared to be the most violent, but over 10,000 remaining Thai workers in the unrest-torn nation were staying in safe camps, and that the Thai government is to decide carefully on a good timing for more evacuations of the Thai workers, as the Thai nationals must travel up to some 100 kilometres by road to board their ships and the route is full of danger and robbery. (TNA)
Thai Labour Ministry Spokesman Sutham Natheethong, who heads a coordinating committee on assisting Thai nationals, mostly workers, in Libya, said that the Thai workers had been evacuated by road and by sea from Libya. People have been evacuated only by road and by sea from Libya, as airports in the North African nation have been closed. Sutham revealed that he has coordinated with agencies concerned to provide food supply believed to sufficiently serve the evacuated Thai workers over the next one month.
For the remaining 20,000 Thai workers in Libya, the spokesman said that there had been no reports on their casualties, and that the Thai Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labour have assessed the updated situation in Libya based on the hourly basis to see whether all the remaining Thai nationals should be evacuated from the riot-ripped country.
The spokesman revealed that Thai labour authorities were set to meet representatives of all local employment firms in Bangkok Thursday afternoon to plan more evacuations of Thai workers from Libya, and that he and other Thai labour officials are scheduled to leave for Malta bordering Libya tonight to follow up the situation and to arrange for evacuation plans for the remaining Thai workers to nearby countries. Initially, four ships have reportedly been prepared for more evacuations of Thai nationals from Libya, each can carry 1,400 people. They will bring the Thai people from Benghazi and Tripoli to Malta.
Meanwhile, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva acknowledged that the situation in Libya appeared to be the most violent, but over 10,000 remaining Thai workers in the unrest-torn nation were staying in safe camps, and that the Thai government is to decide carefully on a good timing for more evacuations of the Thai workers, as the Thai nationals must travel up to some 100 kilometres by road to board their ships and the route is full of danger and robbery. (TNA)
