Sunday, 13 December 2009 04:23 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vijajjiva and foreign minister Kasit Piromya should send a letter thanking Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for seeking a pardon for Sivarak Chutipong from the Cambodian King, Norodom Sihamoni on Friday, Pheu Thai spokesman Jirayu was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post on Saturday.
“Mr Abhisit and Mr Kasit should phone to Hun Sen to thank him on helping the Thai engineer be released,” Jirayu said, adding that the government should not consider the release as an achievement of the opposition party.
Norodom Sihamoni on Friday morning pardoned the Thai, jailed for 7 years and fined CR10 million for spying on fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during his 4 day-visit to Cambodia beginning November 10, a Cambodian government spokesman said.
“On Friday morning Hun Sen said that if the man wants to continue working in Cambodia, he is welcome,” Khieu Kanharith confirmed, adding that the premier Hun Sen will give the formal pardon request on Monday to his family and Phue Thai Party Leaders.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday welcomed news of a royal pardon for a Thai jailed in Cambodia for spying, Sivarak Chutipong, but said the government had not received official confirmation from Phnom Penh, the Bangkok Post reported on Friday.
He said it would be good if the report was true because this would mean Sivarak’s freedom.
Sivarak’s mother, Simarak na Nakhon Phanom, has alleged that Kamrob Palawatwichai, former first secretary to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, called her son on the telephone and asked for the information, according to Thai media.
Siwarak’s arrest in Phnom Penh last month deepened a diplomatic crisis over Cambodia’s appointment of Thaksin as an economic adviser and its refusal to extradite the ousted premier to Thailand.
Several reasons motivated the Cam-bodian King’s pardon of the Thai spy, including the jailed man’s lawyer-declining to appeal the case, Pheu Thai leaders asking for help from the PM Hun Sen, and Thaksin making efforts to seek help Sivarak.
Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in his Twitter page on Saturday morning that he plans to visit leaders of three Asian countries next week, the Bangkok Post added.
“This trip will take about seven or eight days” Thaksin said but did not give any details on the name of countries he would visit.
There was a report that Thaksin might also visit Cambodia to meet with Sivarak Chutiphon. Thaksin’s close associate Noppadon Pattama was reached for confirmation of the new trip to Cambodia of Thaksin but he said he had no knowledge about it.
The opposition Puea Thai Party on Friday called for Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and Kamrob Palawatwichai, former first secretary to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, and accepts responsibility for having caused Sivarak Chutipong’s suffering in Cambodia.
1 comment:
Thai people believe that this incident is just a soap opera. Why PM Hun Sen is helping fugitive ex-PM Taksin on attacking Thailand? What're their interests?
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