By FT reporters and agencies
Financial Times (UK)
Thailand’s foreign minister has quit, local media reported on Wednesday, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej a day after he invoked emergency rule against protesters seeking to unseat him.
Tej Bunnag, a retired diplomat appointed in July, resigned after completing his mission to repair relations with Cambodia after a temple row that forced out his predecessor, a television channel and news Web sites said.
Tej once served in King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s principal private secretary’s office, and his departure could be seen as the revered monarch expressing his reservations about Samak’s administration.
News of the resignation came a day after Samak invoked emergency rule in Bangkok to quash intensifying street protests against his seven-month old administration.
Mr Samak’s decision came eight days after thousands of protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy seized Bangkok’s administrative seat in an escalating campaign to force him from office.
The PAD spearheaded the protests preceding the September 2006 military coup that drove Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister, from power. It argues that Mr Samak’s administration must also go because it is too closely linked to the ousted leader, now in exile in the UK.
Mr Samak, who was elected in January, has refused to resign, citing his electoral legitimacy. But his relations with the country’s military have remained tense and the military has been reluctant to intervene on his behalf to quash protests.
Tej Bunnag, a retired diplomat appointed in July, resigned after completing his mission to repair relations with Cambodia after a temple row that forced out his predecessor, a television channel and news Web sites said.
Tej once served in King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s principal private secretary’s office, and his departure could be seen as the revered monarch expressing his reservations about Samak’s administration.
News of the resignation came a day after Samak invoked emergency rule in Bangkok to quash intensifying street protests against his seven-month old administration.
Mr Samak’s decision came eight days after thousands of protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy seized Bangkok’s administrative seat in an escalating campaign to force him from office.
The PAD spearheaded the protests preceding the September 2006 military coup that drove Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister, from power. It argues that Mr Samak’s administration must also go because it is too closely linked to the ousted leader, now in exile in the UK.
Mr Samak, who was elected in January, has refused to resign, citing his electoral legitimacy. But his relations with the country’s military have remained tense and the military has been reluctant to intervene on his behalf to quash protests.
7 comments:
Woot!
Another defeat for Thai!
One more win for Khmer!
Doom's day coming for Thailand!!
Doom's day coming for Cambodia!
War will break out very soon.
Cambodia should do the same as Thai. Never let Ah Hun rules the country for life.
Only the Siam's King dies, otherwise there ain't no war between Khmer and Siam?
The people power is evidently and sucessfully good for Siam, and ironically when is the people power conscientiously awaken in Srok Khmer?
No doubt about his resignation. He is the puppet of Siam King. Once Samak gov't cannot control the issue in Bangkok, this guy is totally removed by this master.
This is another dirty tactic that Siam is going to play with Khmer. They wanna prolong the bilateral negotiation.
Cambodia sould push Thai back to the negotiation table or bring it to the UNSC.
Hun Sen and CPP ain't bring the solution to the UNSC, 'cause their master, Youn, will also be lost the land and island back to Khmer!
something smells very fishy in thailand. that's thailand's problem. i don't think khmer people care about that, especially after what they have done to cambodia already! cambodia want our land back that thailand stole from us since after the fall of angkor empire or the khmer empire. god bless cambodia.
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