Thai Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra has been invited by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
to travel to Cambodia on Friday to address a high-level U.S. business
conference.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Surapong Tovichakchaikul
said Yingluck had accepted the invitation to give a speech at the US-Asean
Business Council conference in Siem Reap.
On her visit to Cambodia to attend the Asean Summit,
Clinton is accompanied by U.S. entrepreneurs who will meet to discuss
investments in the Asean region.
Yingluck will deliver a speech to the US-Asean
Business Forum and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Asean connectivity and
Thailand's economic plan after the flood, officials said.
She is scheduled to meet and have a bilateral
discussion with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen prior to speaking to
U.S. business representatives.
In the meeting with Hun Sen, the main agenda would be
cooperation on a road connecting the border and Laos's Xayaburi dam, said a
Thai spokesman.
The spokesman said allegations by the opposition
Democrat Party that Yingluck would discuss a gas deal in the joint development
area in the Gulf of Thailand with her Cambodian counterpart on Friday was not
accurate.
A Thai official said Thailand and Cambodia would not
be able to resume negotiation on the joint development area in the Gulf of
Thailand, which is believed is be rich in petroleum resources, since the legal
status of the 2001 memorandum of understanding was in doubt due to an
announcement of denunciation made by the Democrats when they were in power.
The former Democrat government announced in late 2009
that it was scrapping the 2001 MOU on the maritime deal after a conflict with
Phnom Penh over a visit by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. There are,
however, doubts whether the denunciation was effective since the then
government did not officially inform Phnom Penh of the move.
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