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