Thaksin to receive new Thai passport as New Year gift: Surapong
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The Thai government will soon re-issue a passport for fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a New Year's gift, the foreign Minister said Friday.
“When Thaksin’s passport was revoked, there was no order from the courts or the police to seize it,” Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul told reporters.
“I will therefore use my authority and proceed legally under the regulations of the ministry to issue a new passport to ex-premier Thaksin,” he said.
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