Myanmar President Thein Sein has cancelled
his state visit to Thailand scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
The
president's website said the visit had been postponed due to some
inconveniences.
'The
trip will be arranged later at a time convenient to both sides,' said the brief
statement without elaborating.
The
cancellation comes even as sources said a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent in
Myanmar.
This is
the second time Thein Sein has postponed his visit to Thailand, nearly a week
after first pulling out of the two-day World Economic Forum (WEF) in Bangkok,
which opened on Thursday, where he was slated to speak. He then delayed his
visit to Thailand to next week.
Sources
close to Myanmar's government told The Straits Times then that the president's
office was taken aback on learning that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi would
attend the WEF.
She has
taken the limelight at the forum. Speculation was that Thein Sein put off his
attendance at the WEF because he feared being upstaged by Suu Kyi at the event,
her first trip outside Myanmar since 1988.
At the
WEF yesterday, Suu Kyi said the president was sincere about reforms but
"has to contend with the army."
The
reformist Thein Sein, 66, is known to be fitted with a pacemaker and is often
said to be in fragile health.
Nirmal
Ghosh
The
Straits Times
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