BANGKOK, July 26 (TNA) -- Tej Bunnag, currently advisor to the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private secretary, was on Saturday appointed Thailand's new minister of foreign affairs, succeeding Noppadon Pattama who resigned mid-July as a casualty of the row over the the ancient Khmer temple of Preah Vihear with Cambodia.His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej gave the royal endorsement to Mr. Tej as foreign minister Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Tej, a former permanent secretary for foreign affairs, is expected to have an audience with His Majesty the King on Sunday at the palace for a traditional swearing-in ceremony before officially taking up his post.
The most urgent task for the new foreign minister is to hold official talks with his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong next Monday in the Cambodian province of Siem Reap regarding the 4.6-square-kilometre contested area at Preah Vihear temple, which gained a World Heritage site listing from UNESCO for the Cambodian government earlier this month.
While hopes are improved for a positive outcome of Monday's talks between the two men, the issue remains complex and emotion-laden for both countries.
The two ministers have had a long acquaintance, including a period during the 1990s when men represented their countries as ambassador to France.
Tej, 64, studied at Oxford and Cambridge and began his career with the Foreign Ministry in 1969.
Mr. Tej was formerly a co-chairman of the Thailand-Cambodia Commission for Promotion of Cultural Cooperation to boost friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
The post of foreign minister was left vacant since Mr. Noppadon resigned on July 14, days after the Constitution Court ruled that his signing of a joint document backing Cambodia's bid to list the long-disputed Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage site without endorsement by the Thai parliament was in breach of the country's supreme law.
7 comments:
Yeah, Yeah, yeah... whatever who he is just talk and get over it. I'm of this bullshit crap.
Have the talks failed , and start the war; these flip-flop soldiers need our bitter medicine, and we'll make certain that they'll be taught a lesson that they'll never forget.
Go Thailand.
Cambodia is looking forward to it show us how strong you really are.
The siam will do anything to justify the so-called disputed zone, and push for their new map.
We stick to 1907 Treaty and 1962 ICJ verdict.
If Cambodia stick to these, we just go back to the ICJ and the ICJ will give order to withdraw the troop immediately, like in 1962.
This is their worst nightmare is that Cambodia call for the ICJ.
It doesn't matter which new Thai minister of foreign affairs chose by the King of Thailand or by the Thai government!
All Thai officials are the same and their goal, their evil intention always been to steal what belong the Khmer people!
The game of conflict by the Thai government is still the same but the players are changing to raise the Thai-Khmer conflict to a new level!
There is nothing for Khmer leaders to negotiate regarding Khmer sovereignty and that should be the end of the game!
stay firm my men
The game of war will begin. The Khmer will kill the invader siamese, and they will not take hostage. Destroy them, the bastard siamese. They are not that strong and have no experience in jungle fight. Kill all these siamese soldiers and let's take NO hostage.
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