Thailand's PM Abhisit Cancels Trip To Russia

[Anyse]

I am a speaker of Russian as well as a student of Russian and a follower of the Russian press and government. When Abhisit said ""Thailand acted in accordance with the laws and international treaty obligations before making an executive decision for the extradition mindful of its national interest," he said it in the most diplomatic terms. However, Russia takes such things personally when those in power fail to come as earlier promised. This is a slight against Russia, diplomatically. Also, Thailand should consolidate the best possible relations with either Russia or China and, in my sense of the world, Russia is a better devil to deal with than is China. One can no longer say that Abhisit has all of this other stuff with which he must deal for such is alway the case with any PM. In absentia, he can tell another where to go with what. Simple as that. Unless, as happened to Gorbachev, he would be removed in a coup of some sort if he left Thailand for a few days! Hmmm . . . I wonder if Thaksin is reading this! LOL!

Edited November 19, 2010 by Anyse