Campaign to correct image of country
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PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered that information packages be put together so as to create a better understanding of Thailand's situation among the international community, Government Spokesman Maj-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd has said.
“Clear and detailed information should be presented so as to explain the reasons and circumstances that led to the current government and the National Council for Peace and Order [NCPO] stepping in,” Sansern quoted the PM as saying during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
The prime minister’s order came after he attended the recent United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sansern said. Prayut found that the international community still had a blurred understanding of the country, especially the situation before the military took over last year and set up the NCPO.
This vague understanding also seemed to be reflected in other issues, such as Thailand’s aviation standards being degraded by the International Civil Aviation Organisation and the European Union’s warning over illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
The information package will also explain details of the government’s policies to alleviate the plight of farmers and people with low income, Sansern said.
“There have been moves to discredit us, that we are threatening the poor,” he said. “But we are actually not. We have measures to help those affected by the policies. So we have to create information sets for correct understanding.”
Offices in charge of making the information package are the PM’s Operations Centre, the Foreign Ministry, the Public Relations Department, and the Government Spokesman Bureau, Sansern said.
