The Cabinet granted a Foreign Ministry request for the Thai embassy in Hungary to cover bilateral ties with Montenegro, where fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is living in exile, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Thaksin, who is eluding an imprisonment sentence at home, has been granted Montenegrin nationality.
However, acting government spokesman Panitan Wattayagorn yesterday denied the Cabinet decision was aimed at hunting down Thaksin for legal action at home.
The Thai embassy in Hungary has been assigned to cover Montenegro for years. The Cabinet decison yesterday was simply an official endorsement for the assignment, he said.