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| Thaksin arrives as adviser |
| 2009-11-11 |
| [Straits Times] FORMER Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, a fugitive from the law in his own country, arrived in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to become a special economics adviser to the Cambodian Prime Minister. He arrived on board his private jet at about 10am local time at an air force base next to the international airport where he was greeted by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Thaksin was taken to a house provided for him in a luxury downtown enclave in the capital. He had dinner with Mr Hun Sen last night, and is scheduled to deliver a lecture to some 300 Cambodian civil servants on Thursday. His visit further rattled the Bangkok government, coming just after he referred to Thailand's monarchy in an interview with the Times of London which was published online on Monday. The Thai Cabinet decided to revoke a 2001 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cambodia on 26,000 sq km of overlapping maritime territory on Tuesday. The decision, which needs to be ratified by Parliament, was part of a set of options aimed at putting pressure on Cambodia for what a Foreign Ministry official called 'blatant interference in Thailand's internal affairs'. |
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