Eastern Provinces To Promote Trade And Tourism With Cambodia

[Jai Dee]

Eastern provinces will promote trade and tourism with Cambodia

Mutual assistance between the Thai and Cambodian people will be tightened as a way to promote development in the eastern border province of Trat.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said during his visit to the people of Trat this morning that he wanted to see higher level of assistance between peoples on both sides of the border. As a result, he will assign military engineering units to step up improving the condition of the border market and constructing asphalt roads to facilitate better contacts between the two peoples.

Dr. Thaksin said he has a policy to expand the Trat - Khlong Yai Road into four traffic lanes and to add a stretch to Hat Lek Village where he was visiting, in order to accommodate tourism and trade between the Thai eastern border provinces and Cambodia as well as Vietnam in the future. Prime Minister Thaksin asked the provincial governor of Trat to expedite tourism development, particularly the environmental tourism that can be linked with attractions in Cambodia and Vietnam.

The Prime Minister also urged the Trat people to exercise their voting rights on April 2nd. He later visited villagers in Ban Huay Nam Khao where he observed the community bank which is an outstanding model for other provinces and visited an OTOP exhibition centre.

Prime Minister Thaksin’s visit to Trat is part of his inspection tour of eastern provinces that began on Monday. He will this evening move to Chon Buri Province, where he will give a major public speech.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 09 March 2006