Thai Prime Minister:Public-private cooperation is a key to national security

BANGKOK, December 8 (TNA) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has urged for close cooperation between the Thai public and private sectors in all areas to promote and to uphold national security. In her address to students of the National Defence College, Yingluck said Thursday that the global situation has been rapidly changing, with each change affecting security; so, it is necessary to maintain peace to uphold and to sustain security in individual nations and in the world entirely. Yingluck suggested that it is better to first understand root-causes of threats to security; while cooperation between a state, people and a society appears to be a combined mechanism which cannot be separated from each other, and that building security, so that a country can deal with every form of threats, need cooperation from all sectors in the nation. According to the prime minister, security can be identified in several forms, namely economic, healthy living, social, natural and environmental security, with negative impacts to be emerging, for instance, in the food sector, if there was any flaw in a security building-up process. The Pheu Thai premier acknowledged that military security construes national security with peace, sovereignty and all institutions orderly sustained, and that economic, social, environmental and energy security, etc, is to be secured through the self-sufficiency economy philosophy, introduced by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and is to keep pace with new technologies for the sake of maximum national interests. Premier Yingluck cautioned that all global parts have been threatened by natural disasters with impacts on relevant areas, noting that Thailand's massive flooding this year, with a total damage estimated at more than 1.3 trillion baht, was also attributed mainly to a natural disaster, saying that her government has viewed the flood-borne crisis as an opportunity to strengthen the country's overall structural security in a sustainable aspect to create and to maintain confidence in Thailand among locals and international investors and travellers in the long run. (TNA)