Thai PM to fly to Myanmar to press aid issue

Thu May 8, 2008 11:48pm EDT
 
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BANGKOK, May 9 (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Friday he will fly to cyclone-stricken Myanmar this weekend after British and American envoys urged him to ask the ruling generals to open the door to Western aid. "I have already contacted them. I will see them on Sunday," Samak told reporters after meeting British Ambassador Quinton Quayle in the Thai capital. (Reporting by Pracha Hariraksapitak; Writing by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Darren Schuettler and John Chalmers)



 

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