BANGKOK, Nov 9 (TNA) – Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has prepared documents requesting the extradition of convicted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from Cambodia as a contingency if he visits the neighbouring country’s capital Phnom Penh this week as reported, according to Vice Foreign Minister Panich Vikitsreth.
International media reported that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told reporters that Mr Thaksin will visit Phnom Penh after being appointed an economic adviser, to lecture over 300 Cambodian economists at Cambodia’s finance ministry on Thursday.
Mr Panich said if Mr Thaksin is really in Cambodia, the Office of the Attorney General will request extradition from Cambodia as the two countries have already signed an extradition treaty.
He said all documents related to the case have already been prepared and translated to English as this was not the first case for an extradition request for Mr Thaksin.
The Thai foreign ministry official said that Thailand earlier requested Fiji and other countries which had treaties with the kingdom, and where Mr Thaksin was reportedly visiting.
After the request is sent to Cambodia, Thailand must wait for Cambodia’s legal procedures to be carried out and if Cambodia denies the Thai request then Thailand must review the status of its bilateral relations for another step under diplomatic protocol, he said.
Now Thailand is reviewing all existing bilateral agreements and cooperation projects made with Cambodia, as well as ongoing cooperation which the Thai government has extended to Cambodia following the withdrawal of the Thai envoy to protest the Cambodian government appointment of Mr Thaksin as economic advisor to the government and personal advisor to Mr Hun Sen.
However, he said, any measures will be adopted using diplomatic protocol and would not lead to military measures as that would be the last option.
Thailand’s Supreme Court Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions sentenced Mr Thaksin to a two-year prison term in absentia after finding him guilty of a conflict of interest in Bangkok’s Ratchadaphisek land purchase case in 2003. He jumped bail and fled the sentence.
Meanwhile, Thailand would proceed to terminate the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Thailand and Cambodia regarding the area of their overlapping maritime claims to the continental shelf.
The MoU, dated 18 June 2001, was signed by then-foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An during the Thaksin administration.
The issue will be submitted to the cabinet for consideration on Tuesday, said Mr Chavanont Intarakomalsut, Secretary to the Thai foreign minister.
He also defended the decision to scrap the MoU, saying that if the government let the MoU continue in force, it could damage Thailand's interest.
He added that the ministry would ask the Constitution Court to rule whether the MoU revocation must be considered by Parliament as required under Section 190 of the Constitution to prevent any future backlash.
International media reported that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told reporters that Mr Thaksin will visit Phnom Penh after being appointed an economic adviser, to lecture over 300 Cambodian economists at Cambodia’s finance ministry on Thursday.
Mr Panich said if Mr Thaksin is really in Cambodia, the Office of the Attorney General will request extradition from Cambodia as the two countries have already signed an extradition treaty.
He said all documents related to the case have already been prepared and translated to English as this was not the first case for an extradition request for Mr Thaksin.
The Thai foreign ministry official said that Thailand earlier requested Fiji and other countries which had treaties with the kingdom, and where Mr Thaksin was reportedly visiting.
After the request is sent to Cambodia, Thailand must wait for Cambodia’s legal procedures to be carried out and if Cambodia denies the Thai request then Thailand must review the status of its bilateral relations for another step under diplomatic protocol, he said.
Now Thailand is reviewing all existing bilateral agreements and cooperation projects made with Cambodia, as well as ongoing cooperation which the Thai government has extended to Cambodia following the withdrawal of the Thai envoy to protest the Cambodian government appointment of Mr Thaksin as economic advisor to the government and personal advisor to Mr Hun Sen.
However, he said, any measures will be adopted using diplomatic protocol and would not lead to military measures as that would be the last option.
Thailand’s Supreme Court Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions sentenced Mr Thaksin to a two-year prison term in absentia after finding him guilty of a conflict of interest in Bangkok’s Ratchadaphisek land purchase case in 2003. He jumped bail and fled the sentence.
Meanwhile, Thailand would proceed to terminate the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Thailand and Cambodia regarding the area of their overlapping maritime claims to the continental shelf.
The MoU, dated 18 June 2001, was signed by then-foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An during the Thaksin administration.
The issue will be submitted to the cabinet for consideration on Tuesday, said Mr Chavanont Intarakomalsut, Secretary to the Thai foreign minister.
He also defended the decision to scrap the MoU, saying that if the government let the MoU continue in force, it could damage Thailand's interest.
He added that the ministry would ask the Constitution Court to rule whether the MoU revocation must be considered by Parliament as required under Section 190 of the Constitution to prevent any future backlash.
11 comments:
Now the ball is in HUN SEN's court.If he comply with the demand ,he'll be viewed as kowtow to the pressure.And if he resist,he'll be classified as an untrustworthy in any future negotiation.Well, deal with it HUN SEN.
Thaksin should stay the hell out of Cambodia as we have too many criminals as it is already. Cambodia surely doesn't need another land grabber convict.
10:21 am, watch and learn how the one-eye plays in your so-called 'court'. Politics is not as straight and easy as most of the opposition thinks that it would be.
10:21 the mastermind behind the move is Hanoi! Hun sen is making a move per Hanoi's direction! open your eyes!
10:43 the mastermind behind the move is Hanoi! Hun sen is making a move per Hanoi's direction! open your eyes!
Yes indeed Uncle Ho is calling all the shot.
With or without Mr. Thaksin, Thai government will have another trick to attack Cambodia.
We Khmer love or not, better have to accept the situation. This is a politic and not a game.
No one understood, the stupid thais or siems don't try to get Mr. Thaksin from the country, where he is staying.
Are you out off your mind? why dont u try to help our country? why you have so many negative minds set? or you're dumb? my friend, though u know exactly what our PM did is wrong, but watch out what he is doing now? not because our country? what will he get by doing such things like this? of cause, he may get some but what's the point...huhs? he knows exactly what is going to happen. beside him, who can u trust? your Man? can ur man handle such things like this? u may not know what we have now, it's far different from before. and so many things more will change in the future too.....
you are such a stupid idiot.
if you want to help our country u should not think only negative from what our PM is doing right now. you see not only him alone can make these things happen, but he has so many wise people around him? i know you guys are also wise people, why dont we try to give him ideas to improve or develop our country? who knows, may be our ideas will help in the future.
my friend think about it again, it is the past and let us put the past into past list and never recall it again. what we can do now is to develop our country.
hope u may learn or get something from this message.
inka
T'en n'as pas marre HUN kvack d'histoire de ton copin THAKSIN ?
Rends donc THAKSIN aux THAÏS, et tu dormiras plus tranquille avec Borani.
Dis donc t'es un vrai provocateur!
Chretin 1:07PM, qui t'a dit d'ouvrir ta bouche de merde?
To Hun Sen (Leader of the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime)
Since you and the CPP assassinated, executed, killed and murdered jurnalists, political opponents, leaders of the free trade union, innocent men, innocent women and innocent children;
Do you have any plan to assassinate the Thai prime minister (Abhisit Vejjajiva)?
Are you going to send Brigade 70 (Hun Sen's Death Squad Unit) to assassinate the Thai prime minister (Abhisit Vejjajiva)?
Is it true, you only kill your own peoples, you will not kill Thai and Veitnamese peoples that cannot get enough of our land?
Is it true, you only kill innocent Khmer peoples with no weapon in their hands?
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