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Breaking News: Junta commanders visit Chiangrai
Commanders of the military regions bordering Thailand have arrived this morning in Chiangrai to hold the Regional Border Committee (RBC) meeting with their Thai counterparts, according to Thai security sources.
6 August 2008
Lt-Gen
Samrerng Sivadamrong, Commander of the Third Regional Army himself went to
welcome his Burmese guests at Chiangrai airport. The 3-day meeting which starts
today is to be held at Dusit hotel.
The first part of the day was spent
visiting Doitung, Mae Fa Luang district, where a crop-substitution project was
initiated by the late HRH Princess Mother.
“The topics are still as
usual,” according to an officer, “Doilang (where the two sides are at
loggerheads over a 3-sqkm territory), Migrant workers and Drugs. But something
not in the agenda can come up during the meet, as it usually did in the
past.”
Further details are due to emerge some time this
evening.
Thailand and Burma have agreement to hold regular 3 level
meetings:
- Township Border Committee (TBC)
- Regional Border Committee (RBC)
- Joint Border Committee (JBC)
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