We have to have bilateral talk with Cambodia ... but our parliament won't let us talk with you: Thai perfidious Catch-22 on public display

Why make such a fuss about it? That’s nonsense. - CHAI CHIDCHOB PARLIAMENT SPEAKER

Border talks minutes 'can't be debated'

Details of 3 meetings precluded from House

18/08/2010
Mongkol Bangprapa
Bangkok Post

A Catch-22, coined by Joseph Heller in his novel Catch-22, is a logical paradox arising from a situation in which an individual needs something that can only be acquired by not being in that very situation; therefore, the acquisition of this thing becomes logically impossible. Catch-22s are often spoken with regard to rules, regulations, procedures, or situations in which one has knowledge of being or becoming a victim but has no control over it occurring.

A joint House-Senate session has voted to prevent the minutes of three parliamentary meetings held to discuss border issues from being debated in parliament.

The majority of the members of yesterday's session agreed with a House committee on parliamentary affairs recommendation that the minutes of three joint closed-door meetings held in 2008 and last year be off limits in parliamentary debates.

The meetings focused on developing a framework for border negotiations between Thailand and Cambodia, and Thailand and Laos.

Yesterday's joint session voted on whether the minutes of three closed-door meetings on border issues should be barred from parliamentary debate.
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