PM meets 'ill-informed' Saudi envoy
SAYS 2007 AMNESTY ON DISCIPLINARY CHARGES FOR STATE EMPLOYEES PAVED THE WAY FOR SOMKID PROMOTION
- Published: 19/09/2010 at 03:37 AM
- Newspaper section: News
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has met with Saudi Arabia's envoy to Thailand to clarify the controversial promotion of Somkid Boonthanom to the position of assistant national police chief.
Mr Abhisit met with Saudi charge d'affaires Nabil Hussein Ashri at Ban Phitsanulok.
He explained to Mr Ashri that under Thai law, the senior policeman's promotion was appropriate due to a blanket amnesty given to all state employees facing disciplinary charges on the occasion of His Majesty the King's birthday in 2007.
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