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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Purchase of six used submarines approved and retracted

Type-206AThe Cabinet on Tuesday approved the naval proposal to buy six U-206 submarines, worth Bt6.9 billion, from Germany, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said, before retracting her statement hours later.

“The naval procurement project has been approved,” she said.

Yingluck subsequently instructed the deputy government spokesman to apologise for the confusion caused. The Cabinet did not debate the submarines deal but the prime minister misunderstood the reporter’s question as referring to the Army proposal to buy eight helicopters from France.

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