PM offers woman's touch in maritime row
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has offered to bring something new to the negotiating table over the broiling territorial disputes in the South China Sea - a woman's touch.
Speaking at the Asia Society in New York yesterday, she said as a non-claimant state on good terms with all the parties involved, Thailand wants to help. While stressing she wasn’t underestimating the challenge, Yingluck said:
“Perhaps I can bring a bit of a woman’s touch to addressing this conflict.” People in the packed auditorium responded with gentle ripples of laughter.
Yingluck urged the countries involved in the maritime territorial disputes to “focus more on what we can do together rather than what divides us”.
