Kasit: P.Penh must follow the law
* Published: 19/11/2009 at 02:38 PM
* Online news: _Breakingnews_
(http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews)
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya insisted on Thursday that Cambodia must
comply with the law after Phnom Penh banned Thai nationals from working at
Cambodian Air Traffic Services (CATS), which is operated by Thailand's Samart
Corporation.
The Cambodian government has ordered the air traffic control company to
replace all Thai workers with Cambodians and has seized all the company's
equipment.
Mr Kasit said any action against the company and its employees must be
strictly according to the law, and comply with Cambodia's investment and
internal regulations.
"As for Thailand, we'll wait for reports from the Thai embassy to Phnom
Pehn. We hope that we'll receive factual information from Cambodia and the
[Samart] company," he said.
"If the Cambodian action does not follow the terms of the bilateral
agreement between our two countries, we'll have to find other ways to
continue."
The Foreign Ministry had sent the Consular Affairs Department deputy
director-general to see the mother of Thai engineer Siwarak Chutiphong, who
was
arrested by the Cambodian government last week on spying charges.
Mr Kasit said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had promised Mr Siwarak's
mother that he will visit her detained son.
He said the government had to wait for Cambodia's confirmation of a time
for the meeting with Mr Siwarak. The ministry had also hired a lawyer to
liaise with the company about the problem.
"There are, however, no problems in Thai-Cambodian relations," he
insisted.
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