The red-shirted Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship yesterday said it would not disturb the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting that starts in Bangkok this weekend.
The protesters briefed Bangkok-based diplomats about their protest in the capital, saying they would employ peaceful means in the struggle to have Parliament dissolved.
Protest leaders Dr Weng Tojirakarn, Veera Musigapong and Jaran Dittha-apichai met representatives of 15 embassies at a Bangkok hotel. They told the diplomats that the protesters would not disturb the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting this weekend.
The protesters will not go to the meeting venue at the Centara Hotel but might send a few representatives to submit a letter to the meeting, explaining the political situation in the country, Veera said.
The protesters will try their best to maintain peace, he said, but distrusted the authorities as they might set up the protesters as a pretext to crack down by force.
A diplomat from the French Embassy requested the protest leader to take some diplomats to tour the protest site at Rajdamnoen Avenue. Veera arranged a tour for them.
Tjaco Theo van den Hout, the ambassador of the Netherlands, told reporters that he understood the political situation in Thailand and the protest.
