Kasit and Foreign Diplomats

Time and time again I can’t help but wonder whether the Democrats really have no one better than Kasit Piromya to fill the Foreign Minister’s post. His latest international shenanigans have been documented by Bangkok Post’s Umesh Pandey . Key excerpt:

The incident took place early last week, when Puea Thai Party invited the diplomatic community to hear its side of the story.

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The diplomats who visited Ratchaprasong did so with no intention of harming their relations with the government, they only wanted first-hand information from the ground level rather than through the media.

So sensitive was this issue for the government, especially for Minister Kasit, that he called out the dean of the Bangkok diplomatic corps, Philippine Ambassador Antonio Rodriguez, and blasted the actions of the diplomats.

Not happy with calling the dean, Mr Kasit went to Indonesia late last week, where he once again took up the issue and held a press conference.

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The ambassadors’ presence at the protest site was construed as giving legitimacy to people acting illegally by trying to bring down the government through violent means, the dean’s statement quoted Mr Kasit as saying.

And just to demonstrate Kasit’s (and the current government’s) famously short memory:

The fact that the diplomats visited the UDD’s Ratchaprasong protest site is nothing new; I know that many diplomats visited the various protest sites of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (the yellow shirts) but the government at that time did not make any fuss about those visits.

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