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Published on September 27, 2007

"The Royal Thai Government is monitoring closely the situation in Myanmar (Burma).  As a fellow ASEAN member country and a close neighbour of Myanmar, we sincerely hope that there will be peace and national reconciliation in Myanmar," said the statement posted at the foreign ministry's website on Tuesday evening.

In New York, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont who was in a mission for the United Nation General Assembly, told reporters Monday that he was not aware of situation in the neighboring country, Burma.

During the general discussion session at the UN assembly, US President George W Bush announced to impose more sanction against the Burmese junta. The US would impose economic sanction to leaders of the junta and their financial backers and would expand visa ban on people responding for human right violations as well as their family members and more economic sanction, he said.

The military regime has imposed " 19 year reign of fear" including persecution of ethnic minorities, child labor, human trafficking and the snuffing out of freedoms of speech, assembly and warship, Bush said.

Concerns were raised throughout the international community as some 100,000 people and Buddhist monks took street protest in former capital of Rangoon amid a threat from the junta of crackdown to the demonstration.

The protest in Burma began with angry of fuel price hike in August when some hundreds people launched a series of street protests before the monks came out

By Supalak Ganjanakhundee

The Nation.