Defence Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa came out on Wednesday to defend the visit of ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra to Cambodia, saying Thaksin's visit is personal and did not represent the Thai government.
Thaksin, brother of PM Yingluck and ex-economic adviser to Cambodian government, will visit Cambodia this Friday to meet with leaders and investors in Phnom Penh.
A Pheu Thai source has claimed Thaksin will discuss an oil-and-gas concession in the Gulf of Thailand where claims overlap.
Yingluck had earlier claimed her brother did not represent the Thai government.
Thaksin, expected to be in Phnom Penh for two days, will take some foreign investors to meet and play golf with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Defence Minister Tea Banh to make the business deal.
Yutthasak claimed Thaksin's visited to Cambodia was to meet the business community, and was not involved with the Thai government.
The minister said he will visit Thai-Cambodian border Friday and will stay on Thai soil to view areas under supervision of the 2nd Army Area Command.
He also denied a Cambodian report that an unmanned Thai spy plane had crashed in Cambodia.
The 2nd Army Area Command asserted that Thailand's armed forces do not have such aircraft and the crash site was reported to be some 20 km from border, so it was impossible that this country's aircraft would proceed that far into Cambodian airspace.
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