By Thai Newsroom Reporters
NO TALK HAS BEEN recently held between de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra and former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen about unsolved dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over overlapping maritime boundaries and undersea natural resources off both countries’ shores, said Pheu Thai MP Noppadon Pattama today (Feb. 27).
Noppadon, a former foreign minister, categorically dismissed as “groundless” the criticism that the two former prime ministers had recently held a tete-a-tete talk about ways and means to settle the decade-long dispute over the overlapping maritime boundaries around Koh Koot island in the Gulf of Thailand which is officially held as Thai territory and joint Thai-Cambodian development projects on untapped natural resources undersea.
The former foreign minister said such “groundless” hearsay would merely confuse the public and spoil future negotiations between the two neighbouring countries.
Hun Sen paid an informal visit to Thaksin who wore soft splints around his neck and right arm at the latter’s Chan Song Lah residence last Wednesday and expressed admiration for a 32-year-long friendship between the two of them.
Nevertheless, the Pheu Thai MP insisted that any progress in matters pertaining to the Thai-Cambodian maritime boundary controversy and natural resource development plans will only be made on the groundwork of 2001’s memorandum of understanding reached between the two neighbouring countries.
The two former prime ministers alone cannot practically solve any sustained discrepancy involving national interests of either country along the shared border, Noppadon said.
Meanwhile, Pheu Thai spokesperson Danuporn Punnakunt said today Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of the de facto party boss-cum-convict on parole, and members of the ruling party’s executive boards would by no means discuss personal issues and would only touch on social and economic topics pertaining the due interests of both countries during their planned visit to Phnom Penh on March 18 and 19.
In particular, Paetongtarn and other Pheu Thai visitors would not raise anything about 2021’s kidnapping of Thai political activist Wanchalerm Satsaksit in Phnom Penh during their talk with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and others, he said.
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Top and Front Page: Former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen with de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra during his informal visit last week. Photo: Thai Rath
Insert: Koh Kood: Photo: Thai Rath
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