Thai Ambassador to London linked to Thaksin called back to Thailand

nsnbc : Thailand’s Foreign Ministry recalled Thai Ambassador to London, Pasan Teparak, to return to Bangkok. The Foreign Ministry assures London that the move has nothing to do with relations between Thailand and the United Kingdom.

Thai_Embassy_of_Thailand_in_London_1Thailand’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Pasan Teparak to Bangkok as soon as possible, reports Thai Multimedia, adding that earlier reports claimed that the National Council for Peace and Order had called on the ministry to call back the Ambassador.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Set stressed that the move had nothing to do with relations between Thailand and the UK but declined to comment on whether the summoning of the ambassador to Bangkok was related to his close ties to fugitive ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister, former PM Yingluck Shinawatra or not.

Yingluck Shinawatra has, admittedly fulfilled the role of PM on behalf of her fugitive brother which in and on itself is a violation of Thai law.

Nationalmultimedia (NMM) reports that Pasan, from 2006 – 2011,  served as Consul General at Thai Consulate General in Dubai, where Thaksin Shinawatra has an exile residence.

Image: The New York Times openly admits that Thailand was currently run by unelected convicted criminal/fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra.

Image: The New York Times openly admits that Thailand was currently run by unelected convicted criminal/fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thaksin has mostly been living in Dubai since he was ousted in 2006. Thaksin is wanted for a two-year jail sentence for corruption and abuse of power, and is wanted for investigations into his role with regard to several incidents of deadly violence.

Before being appointed as ambassador to London in 2012, he was a member of Yingluck Shinawatra’s Secretariat on Foreign Affairs. NNM quotes “an informed source” as saying that it is likely that Pasan would keep a position as ambassador, but that he probably would be assigned to an inactive post at the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok.

The move is widely considered as a precaution while the National Council for Peace and Order consolidates an interim-administration that is committed to participating the comprehensive reform project that has been launched in order to break the cycles of concentrations of misplaced power, corruption, nepotism, and crisis, which have plagued the country over the last two decades.

The military’s interim seizure of power to end escalating violence and allow time for comprehensive reform has been endorsed by the leaders of Thailand’s five largest religious communities, Thailand’s Board of Trade, independent scholars, and a large number of civic organizations. The majority of Thai consider the military as being an important, independent, national institution.

Ch/L – nsnbc 31.05.2014

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