Yingluck ranks No 3 for globe-trotting

Yingluck ranks No 3 for globe-trotting

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ranks third among globe-trotting world figures for foreign trips, Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn claimed on Monday.

He was speaking during a Senate meeting debating the 2014 Budget Bill on Monday.

Sen Somchai, who sits on the Senate committee on foreign affairs, said Ms Yingluck ranked No.3 among world leaders travelling abroad, after US President Barak Obama and former US president George W Bush. 

The senator said information on Ms Yingluck's overseas journeys during the past two years as prime minister has shown that Ms Yingluck had spent about 300 million baht on 52 foreign trips to 41 countries. 

Sen Somchai asked if the prime minister's overseas visits had yielded any concrete results that were worthy of the money that had been paid for her journeys.

He said the Prime Minister's Office has reported that Ms Yingluck had travelled overseas to promote exports, trade and to encourage foreign investment in the country. 

But export figures over the past seven months between January and July showed that Thailand suffered a trade deficit of more than US$18 billion during the period, Sen Somchai said.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visits Maldives in June, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Government House)

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