No plan to get Thaksin a new passport, says Yingluck

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday that giving a diplomatic passport back to her brother, fugitive ex-premier Thaksin, was not one of her government’s plans.

Yingluck said that she would not get involved in the process and the matter would depend on Foreign Ministry regulations and procedures.

Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul yesterday dismissed media reports that the government planned to reissue a diplomatic passport to Thaksin, because he was a former prime minister.

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