Security issues top Prawit’s talks in the US

By The Nation

 

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Prawit Wongsuwan

 

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Prawit Wongsuwan discussed with the US Homeland Security under secretary Claire Grady issues related to cyber and maritime security, terrorism and transnational crimes as well as human trafficking during his visit to Washington this week.

 

In the meeting with Grady, Prawit said Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US on security matters for mutual benefit as well as using the US experience to improve security in Thailand.

 

Prawit also met his US counterpart, Defence Secretary James Mattis, to discuss bilateral defence relations and regional security issues, Pentagon chief spokesperson Dana White said.

 

Mattis highlighted the priority the US National Defence Strategy places on working with allies and partners to advance common interests and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific region. 

 

“Secretary Mattis expressed confidence that the future for Thai people will be positive as they regain their democratic footing,” White said.

 

The two ministers expressed support for enhancing maritime security cooperation, multilateral exercises such as Cobra Gold, and building interoperability through a strong defence trade relationship, she said. 

 

Prawit also led the Thai delegation to meet with National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office to exchange views on intelligence information exchange, according to Defence Ministry spokesman Kongchep Tantrawanich.

 

Intelligence information on maritime security was important for cooperation to secure sea routes in the region and in the world, he said and noted that the US thanked the Thai military for its role in anti-piracy in the Gulf of Aden, he said. 

 

The Thai delegation also briefed the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons regarding progress of the Thai government’s efforts to combat human trafficking. 

 

Thailand was ranked in the Tier 2 Watch List last year as the authorities did not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating trafficking. 

 

The delegation also met with influential NGOs to convince them that the government was taking steps to manage the millions of migrant workers from neighbouring countries, Kongchep said. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30344064

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-27

How did Dumbo manage to discuss all that? 

During the meeting Grady got really ticked off with Ole Fatty, because all he kept saying was, is that the correct time, or it is running slow.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“Secretary Mattis expressed confidence that the future for Thai people will be positive as they regain their democratic footing,” White said

Democratic footing, on a permanent military bedrock.

 

 

Edited April 26, 20188 yr by coulson
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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Mattis highlighted the priority the US National Defence Strategy places on working with allies and partners to advance common interests and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific region. 

 

“Secretary Mattis expressed confidence that the future for Thai people will be positive as they regain their democratic footing,” White said.

so the US think-tankers are tacitly admitting thailand's backsliding and possibility of not regaining  any meaningful democracy in our lifetimes; they are concerned, seems rightfully so

2 hours ago, webfact said:

issues related to cyber and maritime security, terrorism and transnational crimes as well as human trafficking

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

to discuss bilateral defence relations and regional security issues

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

to exchange views on intelligence information exchange

 

This whole article seems to be a PR attempt to show watchman as an allround statesman.

 

 

Even the fly on the wall nodded off with this one.

Another junket for the watchman - it's called filling your boots before retiring.

Security issues.......should i keep my collection of watches (which aren't mine)

in a safe at the house or in the security box (a big one) at the Bank,

regards worgeordie

Pigs can talk? 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand was ranked in the Tier 2 Watch List last year...

...and Prawit was ranked in the Tier 1 'Watch List' last year...  <Richard Mille, Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, etc>

Edited April 27, 20188 yr by connda

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The two ministers

Mattis is not a minister.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

“Secretary Mattis expressed confidence that the future for Thai people will be positive as they regain their democratic footing,” White said.

With appointed MP's ?  He seems to have a John McCain grasp of Thailand's situation when John said, at the FCCT, that Thailand had a free press.   Both me just must have had their party manners on. 

20 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

How did Dumbo manage to discuss all that? 

I suspect he mostly listened and nodded his head in between glances at his watch.

Just now, chama said:

I suspect he mostly listened and nodded his head in between glances at his watch.

which one?

On 4/27/2018 at 4:17 AM, webfact said:

“Secretary Mattis expressed confidence that the future for Thai people will be positive as they regain their democratic footing..."

While at the same time trying to suppress the mental image of a pot bellied pig chewing a hornet...