Overseas PR mission
A public relations team will head off overseas this week for a series of seminars aimed at informing people in other countries of the political situation in Thailand after the coup, PM's Office Minister Theerapat Serirangsan said yesterday.
Theerapat, who chairs a special panel on public relations in times of crisis, said the group will head to Germany and the UK to talk at a series of seminars they have been invited to. They will leave today and return next Thursday. The group will then head off on a similar mission to Australia and New Zealand and maybe Japan, depending on when they use up the Bt2.5-million allocated. A domestic PR campaign to quell political unrest caused by mobsters and political groups was being mapped out. Theerapat also denied reports Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will meet his deposed predecessor Thaksin Shinawatra in Dubai during a meeting. He said he had unsubstantiated information that "old power groups" had been trying to give financial backing to former MPs in the four northern provinces. Former Thai Rak Thai Party MPs in Nakhon Phanom had lodged a complaint with police against the Anti-Money Laundering Office for leaking a report that some MPs from the North and Northeast received Bt3 million each from the old power groups to topple the government. The government has denied leaking the report and AMLO has denied checking financial transactions of any former MPs.
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