Myanmar FM to Visit Thailand on Border Reopening

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Myanmar FM to Visit Thailand on Border Reopening

Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung will visit Thailand early next month to hold talks with his Thai counterpart and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on the reopeningof border checkpoints.

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Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung will visit Thailand early next month to hold talks with his Thai counterpart and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on the reopeningof border checkpoints.

Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said his Myanmar counterpart was scheduled to visit Thailand on Sept. 6, according to a report of the Thai News Agency Monday.

During the trip, the Myanmar foreign minister will pay a courtesy call on Premier Thaksin, with the issue of reopening of Myanmar checkpoints expected to be included in the agenda, Surakiart added.

It is the first time that Myanmar seeks for discussions with Thailand on the issue since it closed its border checkpoints in May.

Myanmar said in a written message to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs that it should be no closure of border checkpointsin the future, indicating that it was ready to reopen its border checkpoints at any time.

Myanmar, however, proposed that a joint mechanism be established to address any problem incurring after the reopening of the checkpoints within a day, which will help prevent new tensions and closure of the checkpoints in the future, he disclosed.

Clashes along the border in May have led to souring relations between the two neighboring countries. Myanmar accused Thailand ofsupporting its armed ethnic groups, but Thailand totally denied the accusation, saying the warning fire from Thai troops was only to protect the country's sovereignty.

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