UNCTAD protests allowed

Thu, 03 Feb 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Thai police chiefs promised on Wednesday to
permit anti-globalization protests during a major United Nations
trade summit here, despite earlier banning demonstrations near
the venue.

National Police Chief Gen. Pracha Promnog said police were
conducting a search for suitable sites for protests in areas
which didn't inconvenience Bangkok citizens or disrupt traffic.

There are fears anti-globalization protesters may duplicate
demonstrations which marred recent trade and economic talks in
Seattle and Davos at the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) which opens here next week.

Police vowed on Monday to keep demonstrators between 500
meters and one kilometer from the UNCTAD venue at a city center
conference center where world leaders and delegates from more
than 100 countries will be meeting.

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