Bangkok Post
EDITORIAL
The partial turnaround by Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon on attending a General Border Committee meeting in Indonesia is a step in the right direction. Gen Prawit last week said he would never attend a meeting with Cambodian military counterparts in a third country.
He has had second thoughts, however.
He said on Monday that he may attend the meeting next week in Bogor. But he put a condition: that no Indonesian sit in on the talks.
The impression remains that the government and military brass are not together on the negotiations with Cambodia.
Gen Prawit has given no clue on why he reversed his several statements last week that he would not attend a border meeting except in Thailand or Cambodia. He was voluble about the point, talking to reporters for several days in a row to make his point. No third party was needed, not as organiser and certainly not as participant, he said. “If Cambodia is not ready to host” the meeting, then “Thailand is willing to host it”. And then, both in person and through his spokesman Col Thanathip Sawngsaeng: “We will not go to Indonesia.”
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