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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Stalled request for subs sinks RTN's trust in Prawit

Type-206AAs the submarine project remains in limbo with an uncertain future, some top officers in the Royal Thai Navy, including commander Kamthorn Phumhiran, are unhappy with the way Defence Minister Prawit Wong-suwon has treated this issue.

The navy's 7.7-billion-baht plan to procure six second-hand, U-206A submarines made in Germany failed to reach the cabinet meeting on May 3, due to Gen Prawit's decision.

Now it is beyond anyone's guess when the matter will have the chance to be placed on a cabinet agenda again, because the Lower House has been dissolved and the current government has been transformed to that of a caretaker till a new administration is formed after the July 3 general election. Which means key projects will have to wait for the new government to make the call.

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