EU Praises Thailand's Role in Asian Cooperation Dialogue

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EU Praises Thailand's Role in Asian Cooperation Dialogue

The European Union (EU) has praised Thailand's leading role in forming a cooperative platform among Asian countries, the Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), the Thai News Agency reported Saturday.

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The European Union (EU) has praised Thailand's leading role in forming a cooperative platform among Asian countries, the Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), the Thai News Agency reported Saturday.

Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai told reporters that the EU had expressed its appreciation of Thailand's leading role in forming the ACD and in organizing its first meeting, saying if Thailand could successfully encourage Asian countries to cooperateand collaborate in trade, investment and finance more closely, Asia would become the most significant region in the world.

The EU also said that, if so, the Asian region would become a significant trading partner of European countries as well, he stated.

Surakiart made the remarks after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his entourage, including the foreign minister, returned to Bangkok on Friday from a two-day official visit to Bahrain between June 10 and 11, and another two-day official visitto Brussels, the EU center, between June 12 and 13.

President of the European Commission said that the EU considered Thailand as a regional center for trade and investment,as the kingdom would form free trade areas with many countries in the region, noted the foreign minister.

President of the European Commission also endorsed in a writtenmessage an initiative aimed to forge closer cooperation in many areas between the Thai kingdom and the EU, including politics, economics, security, education, and social affairs, he added.

The EU and Thailand agreed that officials of both sides would discuss and work out in details of agreements on the proposed closer cooperation in form of bilateral strategic partners, said the foreign minister.

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