rooster59 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Iranian Foreign Minister visits Thai PMSurapan LaotharanaritBANGKOK, 11 March 2016 (NNT) – The Thai Prime Minister has received Mr Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran, during the latter’s official visit to Thailand.Mr Zarif paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha at Government House to discuss further development of the long-standing Thai-Iranian relations. During the meeting, the Iranian minister confirmed his country’s intent to exchange more official visits with Thailand and to fully drive forward the bilateral cooperation in all sectors, especially trade, energy, science and technology, tourism, agriculture and fisheries.In reply, Gen Prayut seconded the idea of expediting cooperation in areas where both sides are ready and putting it to action within this year. In the meantime, he stressed that medium and long-term cooperation plans will need to be laid down.Concerning security, the two countries agreed to share information and join forces to combat terrorism and extremism, human trafficking, drug trade and other transnational crimes. -- NNT 2016-03-12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeneeds Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 A war chest of money that Iran has to spend, a lot of catching up to do as the French and others have dived in feet first, I wonder if Rice and Rubber were mentioned ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somtamnication Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Quite interesting how much and how fast the Americans are losing their influence in the region and around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdoglover Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Thailand is joining forces with Iran to fight terrorism? I would advise the PM to avoid that little trap, unless he wants to see ISIS in the South. Edited March 11, 2016 by phoenixdoglover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Wait for the Tourism Ministry / TAT to announce they're targeting 1.5 million quality tourists from Iran in the next 12 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Goodness, moving toward countries having military dictatorships seems to be the flavor of the day for the unelected Thai government... What is the game plan here? Where is this headed? Why are Thais aligning themselves with the leaders who are disrupters of human peace and well-being? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZurf Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Goodness, moving toward countries having military dictatorships seems to be the flavor of the day for the unelected Thai government... What is the game plan here? Where is this headed? Why are Thais aligning themselves with the leaders who are disrupters of human peace and well-being? I think all except those who live in la-la land know the answers to your questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Who is next on the list of friends? Syria? Sudan? Camroon? Chad? Uzbekistan? Zimbabwe? Eritrea? etc, so many to choose from! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djjamie Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) This is not unusual. Thailand have had ties with Iran for over 500 years. In fact Iran's first embassy in S.E Asia was in Bangkok in 1956. Visits are normal under all governments whether elected or unelected in Thailand. With trade sanctions lifted in Iran it is a market ripe for business opportunities not just with Thailand, but with the rest of the world. Germany was very quick to get in on the action. The Iranian president visited Italy and France after the lifting of sanctions. I would love to get on an Italian forum and hear the comments from the opposition supporters with tunnel vision on these visits by "an evil dictator". Laughable at best no doubt. Prayut is wise to be making this move for the benefit of Thailand and it is allowing them to raise trade transactions from 350 million to 5 billion USD with Iran. I am still scratching my head on the Maldives relationship though? Arrivederci Edited March 12, 2016 by djjamie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Goodness, moving toward countries having military dictatorships seems to be the flavor of the day for the unelected Thai government... What is the game plan here? Where is this headed? Why are Thais aligning themselves with the leaders who are disrupters of human peace and well-being? The usual opportunism knows no borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Quite interesting how much and how fast the Americans are losing their influence in the region and around the world. What does this visit have to do with US influence? The sanctions are lifted, although this didn't stop many countries from purchasing Iranian oil at the height of the UN sanctions. (Hello India and China.) The USA isn't stopping or protesting anyone's dealing with Iran. How many times does it have to be stated that Thailand needs the USA, more than the USA needs Thailand? Look at where Thailand's most profitable exports go. Even with the highly promoted Russian and Chinese ties, the most important export market in terms of profitability, of where the value added products go, remains the US/Canadian market. If Thailand lost access to this market. the Thai economy would be pushed close to collapse. Its the money generated by high margin exports that pays for the foreign energy imports and of key imports. Selling rubber, and wood to China which then comes back as finished goods at a much higher value doesn't really work in Thailand's favour. Selling rubber and produce to the Russian market hasn't worked out as well as was promoted. The Russians have never been good when it comes to paying in a timely manner. How about the much touted Indian trade expansion? Thailand is discovering how miserable the Indian market is. One can moan and groan about the American and EU and Australian/New Zealand markets, but they pay their bills and offer reliable business relationships. They also buy the products that generate the largest profits for exporters. This is something that is not emulated by the Chinese or Arabs or Iranians or Russians, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baerboxer Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Who is next on the list of friends? Syria? Sudan? Camroon? Chad? Uzbekistan? Zimbabwe? Eritrea? etc, so many to choose from! Doubt it will be Zimbabwe - the previous lot had already close ties there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus9 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Thailand is joining forces with Iran to fight terrorism? I would advise the PM to avoid that little trap, unless he wants to see ISIS in the South. Iran is fighting the ISIS unlike Saudi Arabia that is supporting the ISIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoreanoOzzie Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 No terrorists please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdoglover Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Thailand is joining forces with Iran to fight terrorism? I would advise the PM to avoid that little trap, unless he wants to see ISIS in the South. Iran is fighting the ISIS unlike Saudi Arabia that is supporting the ISIS. Yes. So if you align with Iran, then ISIS will put you on their enemies list and start encouraging Southern Thai Muslims to take action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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