Security tight for joint Cabinet meet

Security tight for joint Cabinet meet

THAILAND: Security will be tight at a forthcoming joint Cabinet meeting between Thailand and Cambodia after a threat against Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was revealed last week, a Thai official said on Monday.

The Saturday meeting is to be split between a morning session in Siem Reap, the gateway town to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex, and an afternoon session in northeastern Thailand's Ubon Ratchatani.

Thailand has already provided Cambodia with bomb detection and other security equipment, a Thai intelligence official said.

Cambodia will be the third country with which Thailand has held a joint Cabinet meeting, following Singapore and Malaysia, in an initiative by Thaksin Shinawatra aimed at boosting relations with neighbors.

The meeting was slated for March, but was postponed after anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh in January. -- AFP