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WIRE: 03/14/2001 3:06 am ET Myanmar general vows to keep Thai border closed YANGON, March 14 (Reuters) - A top Myanmar military official accused the Thai army on Wednesday of treating his country like a "subordinate state" after a border skirmish last month, and vowed Myanmar would respond by keeping a key border checkpoint closed. Major General Kyaw Win, Deputy Director of Defence Services Intelligence, said the Thai military unilaterally shut a busy border checkpoint last month and tried to reopen it this week without consulting its counterpart in Myanmar. The Thai army had also laid down six conditions for re-opening the checkpoint, he said. "They behaved as if Myanmar were a subordinate state, under their influence," he told a news conference. "They failed to abide by international norms set for promoting good neighbourly relations." Thai officials closed a bridge linking Mae Sai in Thailand with Tachilek in Myanmar after a series of skirmishes last month. Bangkok says Myanmar troops crossed into Thai territory on February 10, seizing an outpost which was later recaptured. A day later, shells hit Mae Sai as Myanmar soldiers and their allies in the United Wa State Army clashed with ethnic Shan rebels in Thailand. Mae Sai and Tachileck are major trading towns through which large shipments of consumer goods flow from Thailand into Myanmar. Thailand and Myanmar also accuse each other of fostering a brisk drug trade along the border. The Myanmar general said the border closure had not hurt his country, and said the bridge would stay closed until the two countries hold formal talks. Sorry, der letzte Beitrag war schon von Watcher publiziert worden, hatte ich leider uebersehen. Aber es freut mich, dass er jetzt auch beginnt, Meldungen und Berichte in der, von ihm doch so geschmaehten englischen Sprache, per paste and copy, den Lesern zum Nachlesen zur Verfuegung stellt. MfG BodyG |
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