Drug meeting in Myanmar postponed

Drug meeting in Myanmar postponed

THAILAND: A meeting on regional antinarcotics cooperation
scheduled for later this month in Myanmar has been postponed due
to instability in the military-ruled state, Thai officials said
on Monday.

Thamarak Issarangkun Na Ayutthaya, minister to the prime
minister's office, said the quadrilateral cooperation on drugs
between China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand would not take place in
June as scheduled.

Myanmar troops have been engaged in an offensive against
ethnic Shan rebels who last month captured bases in Myanmar along
the Thai border in a series of bloody clashes which left dozens,
perhaps hundreds of fighters dead.

The incidents have brought Thai-Myanmar relations to crisis
level. Thamarak did not say who called for the postponement.
--AFP