Thai-Myanmar meeting postponed

Thai-Myanmar meeting postponed

BANGKOK (AP): Talks to restore Thai fishing concessions in
Myanmar waters, suspended after the October siege of the Myanmar
Embassy in Bangkok, have been postponed, the Thai foreign
ministry said on Thursday.

Ministry spokesman Don Pramudwinai said a Thai delegation of
government officials and fishery industry chiefs had been set to
travel to Yangon for two days of meetings on Thursday, but the
talks were postponed because of "technical problems".

Myanmar closed its long land border with Thailand and banished
hundreds of Thai fishing boats from its Andaman Sea waters after
Myanmar students seeking democracy in their homeland stormed the
Myanmar Embassy in Thailand on Oct. 1.

The incident frayed usually cordial relations between the two
countries. It took two months for Myanmar's military regime to
agree to reopen the border. But before letting fishing boats back
in, Yangon wants to renegotiate the concessions it has granted,
saying the terms have been violated by some Thai vessels.