By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE PHEU THAI-LED government has been ultimately pressed by a former Yellow Shirt activist to rescind a “treacherous” MoU reached in 2001 between Thailand and Cambodia on a profit-sharing, undersea resources development project in a 15-day period from today (Dec. 9).
Sonthi Limthongkul today submitted a fresh petition to Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra at Government House to completely, unconditionally scrap within the next 15 days the 2001 MoU on the Thai-Cambodian undersea natural resources development scheme which her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra had launched in collaboration with former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen.
Sonthi said many more former Yellow Shirt activists and others would likely take to Bangkok streets in protest of the “treacherous” bilateral agreement which, he said, would largely render disadvantages to the Thai side.
He pointed out that terms and conditions in the MoU obviously contradict those in a royal decree earlier stipulated in relation to Thailand’s maritime territorial integrity off the seaboard province of Trat and elsewhere in the Gulf of Thailand, proclaimed by the previous Pheu Thai government without prior approval from the legislative branch and appear incompatible with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The former Yellow Shirt leader charged that Thailand’s maritime territorial integrity could probably be lost to Cambodia as far as the “treacherous” MoU is concerned and insisted that any planned negotiations between the current Thai and Cambodian governments be indefinitely put on hold until the Constitutional Court may deliver a ruling as to whether it be constitutional in the first place in regard to the relevant royal decree.
Thaksin had allegedly planned to split 50:50 the profits from the joint undersea natural resources development project between himself and Hun Sen, father of current Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, according to the political activist.
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Top and Front Page: Former Yellow Shirt activist Sonthi Limthongkul talking to the press today, Dec. 9, 2024. Photos: Thai Rath
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