Thailand Travel News

Thailand has again confirmed the postponement of next month’s proposed ASEAN summit. This summit already got cancelled due political unrest and demonstrations. This decision was made after it was found that the ASEAN and dialogue country leaders would not be available for the next month ASEAN summit.

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said that the postponement was not due to demonstrations carried out by anti-government protestors but due to unavailability of ASEAN Plus six leaders for the summit.

The 10th ASEAN plus 6 summit was initially scheduled to be held in December but got postponed to April after protestors blocked Bangkok’s two airports for 8 days. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cancelled the ASEAN summit to be held on April 11 after anti government protestors stormed the hotel where the summit was supposed to be held.

Kasit said that some countries have by-elections, some have general elections and other leaders have schedule of foreign visits to be made which is why all the country leaders would not be available for the summit.

The summit was supposed to be held in Phuket which is quite distant from the capital and is more politically inclined to the current government. The summit is likely to be held in October 2009 which is 10 months later than originally planned.

Senior government officials from ASEAN countries will now works towards making sure that all the ASEAN plus 6 leaders would be available to attend the meeting.