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(September
18, 2007/ Bangkok) The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
(CALD) and the Regional Office for East and Southeast Asia of
the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) held last night a
roundtable discussion on “Changes and Challenges of Democracy in
Asia” in the Thai capital.
Eminent Thai
academic, Dr. Suchit Bunbongkarn, Professor Emeritus of the
Social Science of Chulalongkorn University, gave the main
presentation. This was followed by commentaries by Dr. Nereus
Acosta, CALD Secretary General and Dr. Burnaj Smuthraks, Deputy
Spoeksperson of the Democrat Party of Thailand.
The
roundtable, chaired by former CALD Chair, former MP and Thai
Deputy Foreign Minister, M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, started
with the welcome remarks by DP Deputy Leader and former CALD
Secretary General Alongkorn Ponlaboot and Dr. Neric Acosta. |
