to visit the European Parliament was a ploy to stir up political
consequences in Thailand, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai
said Wednesday.
"It's unnatural. It is likely to have
been set up," Mr Don told
a radio programme, asking why an embattled
Yingluck, ousted
in the 2014 coup, is the only politician from Southeast Asia
invited to visit Brussels, with not even Myanmar's democratic
icon Aung San Suu Kyi extended an invitation.
"If it [the invitation] is rejected,
there will be consequences,"
the minister said, without elaborating.
The letter, dated Oct 7 and signed by German European
Parliament members, Elmar
Brok and Werner Langen,
referred to Ms Yingluck as khun, a polite Thai title
used as an
honourific, and asked her to "accept our invitation to an exchange
of views on
the situation in Thailand". This could include her legal
battle in the
Supreme Court and the now-defunct National Reform
Council's rejection of the first
version
of the draft charter, that has delayed the
next general election by
one year to 2017.
The chances of Ms Yingluck, currently on
30-million-baht bail
in the rice-pledging case, taking up the invitation to talk
to the
European Parliament will ultimately depend on the Supreme
Court, Courts
of Justice spokesman Suebpong Sripongkul
said on Tuesday.
Though it granted bail, the Supreme Court's
Criminal Division
for Political Office-Holders ordered Ms
Yingluck not to leave
the country without permission.
It
made the order when she answered charges related to her role
in the loss-ridden
rice-pledging scheme.
Apart from the court, the National Council
for Peace and Order
(NCPO) also wants to check on the purpose of the visit, as
debate
over the letter's credibility and how the talk will impact the
NCPO-run government is mounting, authorities said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee
said the letter
has been found to be genuine, but it is a personal invitation
by
two MEPs, not on behalf of the European Parliament.
On
Wednesday, Surapong Tovichakchaikul, former foreign minister
under the Yingluck
government, hit back at Mr Don's earlier
comments that the invitation was the work
of lobbyists hired by Ms
Yingluck's Pheu Thai Party.
"Minister Don should do his job by
lobbying the EU to extend
an official invitation to Prime Minister Prayut
Chan-o-cha to make
a visit of his own if he thinks Ms Yingluck has lobbied for
this
visit," Mr Surapong said.
News,Politics,Bangkok Post ,26 November
2015.
I disagree with Surapong Tovichakchaikul, former foreign
minister under the Yingluck government ,for he suggest
Ministry Don to lobbying the EU to invite
Gen Prayut
because it no need to do that.
In my opinion,the NCPO and the government
should not
let Ms Yingluk to attend the meeting because it will make
the conflict between the country.
For Ms Yingluk opinion is for defend about herself
and it make no benefit to Thailand except the bad image.
Sincerely Yours.
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