How to deal with the problem of Thai Cambodian relations: Thailand's MFA secret document

Source: Thaksin's Twitter website

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(TRANSLATION)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs --Most Top Secret --Most Urgent

Sri Ayudhaya Road
Bangkok 1040016

November 2009

SUBJECT: How to deal with the problem of Thai Cambodian relations

TO: the Prime Minister

ATTENTION: MFA's top secret report, Most Urgent MFA 1302/2318, dated November 10 2009

ATTACHED:

1. The document's procedure on how to deal with the problem of Thai-Cambodia relations.
2. Signal Tables and Response Levels to preventive measures and the appropriate actions of the Cambodian Government accordingly.

In reference to Cambodian reaction and a proposal on how to deal with the situation and its impact in full details.

MFA would like to propose the solutions on how to proceed with an attachment as follows:

1. An analysis from Cambodian Government's point of view:

• 1.1 Police Lt-Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra is "The Main Threat" intending to threaten the survival of the government by creating the deterioration of political situation by applying two-pronged strategies, the alliances with Cambodian PM and Thai opposition especially the UDD to reduce the effectiveness of our governance to the point of chaos and helplessness. However, Cambodian reaction to this point has been only diplomatic moves not of extreme measures, but a series of provocations to force Thailand to overreact.
• 1.2 The incidents involved are the conflict between two governments. Thailand must not be trapped by Cambodian Government's argument that this conflict are personal among the PM and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Cambodian Prime Minister.
• 1.3 Whether the problematic situation between Cambodia and Thailand continues, it does not depend on the Cambodian PM but will depend on the Thai internal conditions. Cambodian PM will benefit from Police Lt Colonel Thaksin regardless of how it ends. Therefore, the stabilities of every branch of the government and all parts of Thai societies working together, are the most important components to alleviate the problems.

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