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