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Thai PM's visit to Moscow going ahead though trouble at home

The Thai side has confirmed that the visit will take place as planned on December 8-9

BANGKOK, November 28. /ITAR-TASS/. The visit of Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to Moscow will take place despite difficult affairs domestically, Aleksander Mrykin, the Russian embassy's press attache there told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

“The Thai side has confirmed that the visit will take place as planned on December 8-9,” he said.

In recent developments, Thailand’s government has been forced to adjust its work schedule due to mass street protests in Bangkok. This brought decisions to cancel a government meeting in Songkhla province on November 29-30. The prime minister also cancelled her visit to Singapore on November 26-27.

Attache Mrykin said no Russians had turned to the embassy in Thailand for assistance throughout the sweeping anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok and beyond.

“The situation is stable. There were only several calls from citizens in Russia who wanted to know whether it was dangerous or not to travel to Thailand,” Mrykin said.