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Quotable quote: Friedrich Hamburger
European Union Ambassador to Thailand, Friedrich Hamburger, on the EU offer to monitor Thailand's general elections and suspicion that ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra is behind the move:
Friedrich Hamburger
"The European Commission does not act on behalf of deposed prime ministers from whatever country. This offer was made logically, to a friendly country that wants to go back to a democratically elected government."
Surin Upatkoon, the main shareholder in the controversial Kularb Kaew Co, was yesterday charged with a criminal offence for alleged illegal representation of a foreign company under the Foreign Business Act 1999.