Caretaker PM's oversea trips start Saturday
Caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will spend this month travelling to two continents for two summit meetings.
Thaksin would start his oversea trip on Saturday with an official stopover at in Central Asian country of Tajikistan en route to Finland.The visit to Tajikistan is to reciprocate a visit to Thailand by Tajik President Emomal Rahmonov in August last year. Foreign Ministry's spokesman Kitti Wasinondh said the Thaksin's trip to Tajikistan aims at boosting bilateral relations and is in keeping with Thailand's policy of strengthening ties with Central Asia," he said. The caretaker PM will on Sunday travel to Helsinki, Finland where he will attend a summit of Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem). The meeting would focus on trade, concerns over human rights abuses in Burma, joint efforts to tackle terrorism, global warming and energy issues. Thaksin will return to Bangkok on next Tuesday. Three days afterwards, he would travel to Cuba to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam) summit. Thailand joined the 116-member grouping in 1993. The theme of this year summit is "Toward a More Dynamic and Cohesive Nam". Topics to be discussed included UN reforms, terrorism and Middle East conflicts. The caretaker PM is scheduled to have bilateral meetings with Cuba, Congo, Peru, Ghana, Qartar and Egypt. Thaksin and his entourage will travel north to New York to attend the 61 st UN General Assembly scheduled for September 17-21. He would join other leaders to review progress on High-level Plenary Meeting- HLPM which this year would require the leaders to give speech under title, "Implementing a Global Partnership for Development. He would return to Bangkok on September 22. The Nation
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