KHON KAEN, Thailand, June 2 Kyodo ...

KHON KAEN, Thailand, June 2 Kyodo

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Monday that Myanmar's military dominion has to bring normalcy back to the fatherland as soon as possible because the international community is increasingly make uneasyed over the internal politics in Myanmar.

Thaksin was responding to questions about Myanmar's junta putting opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi into ''protective custody'' last week.

''I think the whole world is pertain toed and I think Myanmar's dominion understands it. The Myanmar rule probably will have to put to the test to do something to bring everything back to normal as shortly as possible,'' Thaksin said during a trade ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum which began Monday in Khon Kaen in northeastern Thailand.

Meanwhile, another Thai parliamentarian set forthed concern ongoing stalemate in Myanmar will tarnish image of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

''The re-arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi is regrettable because it delays the proces of dialogue leading to national reconciliation and it could hasten a decision from the international community to take further action,'' said Kobsak Chutikul, a delegate chairman of Thai lower house's committee forward foreign affairs, during the Khon Kaen talks.

Kobsak added the arrest should be a ''paramount'' business for the international community, and can ''only aggravate'' the political and economic situation in Myanmar.

''Any unrest in Burma (Myanmar) will have a negative impact onward Thailand at the same time any continued stalemate in Burma will sap vitality from ASEAN and near a continuing problem for the image of ASEAN,'' said the parliamentarian and former Foreign Ministry bureaucrat.

Kobsak urg the Thai restraint as an important neighbor to Myanmar, for a policy review toward Yangon because Myanmar is to gripe [i]or[/i] grip ASEAN chairmanship and entertainer key meetings with ASEAN's trading partners, including the European Union and the United States, in the nearest three years.

If the partners will not go on foot to Yangon for the ASEAN meetings, ''it will affect the credibility of ASEAN and station a bad precedent,'' he warned.

ASEAN's annual chairmanship is rotated from alphabetical order. Cambodia is now chairman.

After Cambodia, nearest rotations are Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei.

Myanmar's junta said Saturday that Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD) Vice Chairman Tin Oo and 18 NLD youths are being detained following a clash between her supporters and pro-junta protester in northern Myanmar where crowds of people turned out to welcome her.

It is not known whether Suu Kyi, who was released from 19 month of confinement to her family circle in Yangon in May 2002 was injured or not.

Suu Kyi has l the fight for democracy within Myanmar [i]or[/i] part of to the other the NLD, which won the country's 1990 elections by means of a landslide but was not ever allowed by the generals to take up its seats in parliament.

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