Thai minister gets censure reprieve

Sat, 16 Jul 1994, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Thai Foreign Minister Prasong Soonsiri has been
given a day's reprieve for a no-confidence debate in parliament
which had been scheduled to take him away from an ASEAN meeting
with Western partners.

Opposition parties announced after a meeting Thursday that
they would grill three other ministers targeted by their censure
motion on July 27, allowing Prasong to finish chairing the two-
day meeting before facing them on July 28.

The no-confidence motion against Prasong accuses him of
incompetence, nepotism, ignorance and indiscretion -- the latter
reportedly because he was suspected of leaking U.S. information
linking opposition politicians to drug trafficking.

Two other members of Prasong's Palang Dharma Party are
targeted: Deputy Prime Minister Boonchu Rojnastien and
Communications Minister Winai Sompong. Interior Minister
Chaowalit Yongchaiyudh of the New Aspiration Party is the fourth
minister.

All are accused of damaging the country by running their
ministries without knowledge, ability, judgment or justification.

View JSON | Print