By Thai Newsroom Reporters
AS MANY AS 100,000 PEOPLE are being encouraged to undersign a petition calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to unilaterally scrap a 2001 Memorandum of Understanding between Thailand and Cambodia on a profit-sharing undersea resources development scheme.
Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom said today (Nov. 9) he is currently soliciting members of the public online and in person to endorse the ultra-conservative party’s campaign against the contentious agreement signed between the two neighbouring countries in the time of former Thai prime minister/now de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and his former Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen over the last couple of decades.
The former Democrat MP today visited Koh Kood island off Trat in effort to muster popular support among local villagers by undersigning his petition for the Pheu Thai-led government to rescind the Thai-Cambodian MoU. The eastern seaboard province currently has a population of about 227,000 with only one percent residing on Koh Kood island.
Warong said the questionable MoU could possibly lead to Thailand’s unsuspecting loss of maritime territorial integrity over part of continental shelf around Koh Kood island due to overlapping claims made by Cambodia and provided in the bilateral agreement.
The Thai Pakdee chair maintained that the Thai government under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of the de facto Pheu Thai boss, formally call on the Cambodian government to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 pertaining to the maritime territorial integrity and Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Thailand before any negotiations between the two countries on the profit-sharing, undersea natural resources development scheme may be held.
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Top: Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom pointing to Koh Kood. Photo: Facebook
Insert and Front Page: Warong Dechgitvigrom and a map of Koh Kood. Photo: TV Channel 7
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