via CAAI News media
Thu, 14 Jan 2010
By : dpa
Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra this month is to make his third visit to Cambodia since being named a government adviser as ties between the two nations worsen, local media reported Thursday. Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Thaksin's visit, which comes at a time when Thaksin's supporters in Thailand have vowed to escalate anti-government protests there, was "not strange."
"Thaksin coming or going out of Cambodia is a normal thing," Hor Namhong said, according to the Phnom Penh Post newspaper.
Thailand's Supreme Court is to decide February 26 whether the state would seize 2 billion dollars in frozen bank accounts in Thaksin's and his family's names, a pending decision that has heightened political tensions as Thaksin's supporters were expected to escalate their efforts to topple the Thai government before their leader risks losing his fortune.
Cambodian foreign affairs spokesman Koy Kuong said Thaksin's arrival date and the duration of his stay remained unclear, adding that the former premier would visit in his role as economic adviser.
"We don't know the clear programme exactly, but normally, as an economic adviser, he would [work on tasks] relevant to economic affairs," Koy Kuong told the German Press Agency.
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