Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will go on a three-day visit to Myanmar next week during which he President Thein Sein, legal adviser Noppadol Pattama said the ex-leader will meet yesterday.
Thaksin will be in Myanmar from next Thursday to Saturday and will meet the President in Nay; Pyi ne Taw upon arrival.
On Friday, Thaksin is scheduled to meet some key Pheu Thai MPs and Thai entrepreneurs in Tachilek, directly across the border from Chiang Rai, Mae Sai district.
Noppadol told the media that Thaksin first merit on Shwedagon Pagoda on Saturday morning before meeting with his red-shirt supporters to add that would make people were advised to stay on the Thai side of the border because accommodation is cheaper.
He also said Thaksin would not be the Dawei deep sea port visits as reported earlier, and that he was only paying a courtesy visit to Thein Sein and wouldn't discuss Dawei or other projects.
Noppadol said that Thaksin would also not try to all business transactions with the President so the Thai Government, led by his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, has no problems when trying to negotiate the deep-sea project with Myanmar.
Thaksin will visit Thailand if he he closest to Tachilek, said, adding that the last time he was this close was when he visited Champassak in Laos. He also confirmed that the Myanmar authorities had agreed to meet him at the border town of Thaksin supporters late.
However, Noppadol said Thaksin would not be resolving disputes that people might have for not winning a Cabinet seat. He said that the leader was only meeting with his supporters in order to discuss General Affairs.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said he has no knowledge of Thaksin plan to visit the neighbouring country, that he had spoken to him for a while and that the Thai Embassy in Myanmar had not told him about the pending visit to add.
Surapong said what cooperation Thai-Myanmar at the deepwater port project, a team of six ministers, led by a vice-President of Myanmar, would arrive in Bangkok on Tuesday evening and attend an official meeting at Government House the next morning.
He added that two meetings, led by two different panels, would be held with the team of Myanmar. The Myanmar-Thailand Joint Commission on high level, chaired jointly by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of finance Kittiratt na-Ranong and Myanmar vice-president, will be the first meeting.
The second meeting will be held by the Myanmar-Thailand Joint Coordinating Committee, which is chaired by PM's Office Minister Nivatthamrong Boonsongpaisal and Myanmar Minister of industry.
After the meetings, will accompany the entourage to the high seas Kittiratt Myanmar port of Laem Chabang port, so they can get an idea of how the Dawei port would be developed.
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