Thaksin's rare meeting with Myanmar junta leader
Afp, Bangkok
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew Wednesday to neighboring military-ruled Myanmar where officials said he held a rare meeting with the junta's reclusive leader, Senior General Than Shwe."It's for bilateral talks between two leaders on a variety of issues," Thaksin told reporters before leaving. Thai officials provided few details of the hastily arranged trip but said the two would meet Wednesday afternoon in Myanmar's new administrative capital, a place that few outsiders have seen. Most of Myanmar's government and military offices moved in February to the new capital in a jungle compound, which Than Shwe has dubbed the "abode of the king," outside the central town of Pyinmana. An official at Myanmar's information ministry confirmed that Thaksin met Than Shwe, but neither side would give any indication as to what was discussed.
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