By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A FRESH PETITION undersigned by over 100,000 people in opposition to a Thai-Cambodian MoU on a joint undersea natural resources development project will be submitted to the Pheu Thai-led government on the upcoming Friday.
Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom confirmed today (Nov. 20) that the mass petition to which over 100,000 signatures are attached will be handed out at Government House on Friday.
Those petitioners, many of whom are villagers of Trat including those on Koh Kood island, are resolutely calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to entirely scrap the 2001 bilateral agreement under which the Cambodians could possibly take undue advantages of the Thais in regard to a 26,000-sq.km. radius of maritime areas under overlapping claims by both countries around the eastern Thai island, according to the former Democrat MP.
Warong said he considered a 50:50 profit sharing between Thailand and Cambodia over the undersea natural resources development project as unfair and illegitimate in regard to international maritime rules and insisted that the Thai side not abide by terms and conditions of the MoU.
If the current government under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra eventually goes ahead with the arguable MoU made in the time of her father/former prime minister/now de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, they will be called “A Thai Government With a Khmer Heart,” he said.
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