Tuesday, September 29, 2009

[Thailand] NCCC to decide on Preah Vihear case today

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Nation

The National Counter Corruption Commission is expected to make a decision on whether to indict members of the Samak Cabinet and permanent officials involved in endorsing the joint-communiqué to support Cambodia's listing Preah Vihear as a Word Heritage Site.

NCCC commissioner Klanarong Chantik said the NCCC would make the decision today because the investigation results into the case were completed.

Four high-ranking ministry officials have been accused in the case comprising Foreign Ministry permanent-secretary Veerasak Futrakul, Chirdchu Raktrabutr, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Krit Garnjana-goonchorn, Director-General of the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs.

Members of the Samak Cabinet who are defendants in this case include four former cabinet members in the Samak government, namely, deputy prime minister Sanan Kajornprasart, deputy finance minister Pradit Pataraprasit, natural resources and environment minister Suwit Khunkitti and ICT minister Ranongruk Suwanchawee.

The Constitution Court had earlier ruled that the Preah Vihear joint communique was endorsed by the Samak cabinet in violation of the Constitution.

Former foreign ministry deputy permanent secretary Suchinda Yongsunthorn said he believed the permanent officials were innocent as they honestly did their job with the believe that the communique would not cause Thailand to lose any land.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the way cambodia and the world see this, it's siem's poltical problem, not cambodia's, ok! let's not be confused by siem thug-like intention, really!

Anonymous said...

Siem is using land invasion as a scape goat because they are going through their political turm oils. So, their government is trying to change the topic by misleading Seim people to focus on other things rather than on him as an incapable of doing his job as a "Prime Minister" and they know it too well that the Temple is belonging to Khmer but yet they are trying to make trouble to convey the Thai people to focus on something else rather than on him as a Prime Minister, on the other hand, it is a way of getting their people back on track, like instead of fighting with each why not fight with the Khmer? this is called politic! they are try to promote love and unity for their own people and stop fighting each other. So, Khmer government needs to learn more about politicians' intention that could lead into effective outcome. Aust