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Thaksin to visit Cambodia this Friday : Hun Sen

Thaksin to visit Cambodia this Friday : Hun Sen

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will make his visit to Cambodia this Friday to join the Asian Economic Future Conference, not to negotiate with Cambodia on oil and gas issues, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday.

"Thaksin's visit plan to Cambodia was scheduled before the official visit plan of the newly elected Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who will visit Cambodia on Sept. 15," he said during a graduation ceremony of 4,100 students at the National University of Management.

"But the visit of Thaksin on Sept. 16 and stay until Sept. 24 is to join Asian Economic Future Conference, organized by the Royal Academy of Cambodia, not to talk with Cambodia on oil and gas issues," Hun Sen was quoted by China's state-owned Xinhua news agency.

"Thaksin has no duty to negotiate on oil and gas deal and other issues with Cambodia at all as it is the duty of Thai government, not Thaksin," said the Khmer premier.

Cambodia and Thailand entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the area of their overlapping maritime claims to the continental shelf in June 2001, setting out an agreed area to be delimited and an agreed joint development area (JDA), but the talks was in limbo during the former Thai government under Abhisit Vejjajiva's administration.

Hun Sen said that so far no any agreement reached on oil and gas deal talks between Cambodia and Thailand.

The premier said that during the visit, Thaksin would give a lecture on Asian Economics on Saturday at the Peace Palace. "After that, I will officially greet him at the Peace Palace and we talk on economic development," he said.

He added that he would play golf with Thaksin on Sunday and on Sept. 24, Cambodian and Thai parliamentarians and high-ranking officials would play football together at Phnom Penh's Olympic Staduim.
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