Published: 13/12/2009
Bangkok Post
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will arrive in Cambodia Sunday, a government spokesman said, where he will meet a Thai man jailed for spying on him last month.
"He [Thaksin] will arrive today," government spokesman Khieu Kanharith told AFP. "He will meet the Thai man... and he will conduct one or two [economic] workshops in Cambodia during his stay."
Thaksin's visit to Phnom Penh last month caused a diplomatic row after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen refused to extradite him to Thailand to serve a two-year jail term for graft.
Thai national Siwarak Chothipong, 31, is due to be released from prison on Monday after Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni issued a royal pardon. Siwarak was jailed for seven years for supplying Thaksin's flight schedule to the Thai embassy in November.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006, made his trip to Cambodia last month to take up an economic advisory role with the government on the personal invitation of Hun Sen.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday said his government would likely submit another extradition request if Thaksin made a return trip.
Thaksin is living abroad to avoid the jail term for corruption, but has continued to stir up protests in his homeland.
Angered by his presence in Cambodia, Thailand put all talks and cooperation on hold and tore up an oil and gas exploration deal signed during Thaksin's tenure as prime minister.
Cambodia expelled a Thai diplomat who received the flight information from Siwarak. Thailand retaliated in kind hours later.
Both countries had earlier also withdrawn their ambassadors in the dispute over Thaksin's appointment to the advisory job.
Bangkok Post
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will arrive in Cambodia Sunday, a government spokesman said, where he will meet a Thai man jailed for spying on him last month.
"He [Thaksin] will arrive today," government spokesman Khieu Kanharith told AFP. "He will meet the Thai man... and he will conduct one or two [economic] workshops in Cambodia during his stay."
Thaksin's visit to Phnom Penh last month caused a diplomatic row after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen refused to extradite him to Thailand to serve a two-year jail term for graft.
Thai national Siwarak Chothipong, 31, is due to be released from prison on Monday after Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni issued a royal pardon. Siwarak was jailed for seven years for supplying Thaksin's flight schedule to the Thai embassy in November.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006, made his trip to Cambodia last month to take up an economic advisory role with the government on the personal invitation of Hun Sen.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday said his government would likely submit another extradition request if Thaksin made a return trip.
Thaksin is living abroad to avoid the jail term for corruption, but has continued to stir up protests in his homeland.
Angered by his presence in Cambodia, Thailand put all talks and cooperation on hold and tore up an oil and gas exploration deal signed during Thaksin's tenure as prime minister.
Cambodia expelled a Thai diplomat who received the flight information from Siwarak. Thailand retaliated in kind hours later.
Both countries had earlier also withdrawn their ambassadors in the dispute over Thaksin's appointment to the advisory job.
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