Thai DPM ready for talks with demonstrators' leaders

BANGKOK, November 15 (TNA) - Thai Deputy Prime Minister Police General Pracha Promnok, who supervises national security, says that he is ready to negotiate with leaders of all demonstration groups, including those of the main oppostion Democrat Party, to end ongoing street protests. In response to reports that demonstrators rallying at the Democracy Monument on Bangkok's Rajadamnoen Avenue, led by core leaders of the oppostion Democrat Party, have planned to escalate their anti-government demonstration this coming weekend, Police General Pracha stressed on Friday that demonstrators can exercise their constitutional rights unless they violate other people's rights. Police General Pracha told journalists that security authorities have been watching out for suspicious movements to prevent feared violence created by a third party. The deputy prime minister announced that he particularly disagrees with any road blockage or any siege to a government office, as it has caused public trouble, vowing to take legal actions if demonstrators violate laws. The deputy prime minister insisted if core leaders of the street demonstrators, including Democrats Suthep Thaugsuban and Abhisit Vejjajiva, wanted to negotiate to end problems, he would be ready to talk with them. Apart from the Democrats-led rally at the Democracy Monument, there are two more nearby demonstrations, one has been held at Phan Fa Bridge by the Dhamma Army and the other has been held at Makkawan Rangsan Bridge by the Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand. Supporters of the Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand have even boarded four buses to the Government Complex on Chang Wattana Road on the outskirts of the capital to boost morale of Constitutional Court judges who will rule on the constitutionality of a Charter amendment on the making of the Thai Senate on November 20. Meanwhile, the Thai opposition camp has reportedly planned to file a censure motion against the coaltion government of Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with a House session on the no-confidence debate expected later this month, probably November 22-24. (TNA)