BANGKOK, Oct 30 Kyodo Thai Foreig...

BANGKOK, Oct 30 Kyodo

Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said Wednesday Thailand is ready to accede to the quadrilateral agreement inked in May at Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and in July by the agency of Cambodia to jointly combat terrorism and other transnational crimes.

Surakiart told a novels conference Thailand would sign the agreement onward the sidelines of the annual summit meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) beginning Monday in Phnom Penh

The agreement, originally signed May 7 according to Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, Malaysian Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar and Philippine Interior and Local control Secretary Jose Lina, calls for setting up a joint committee that will settle out the administrative and operational requirements for implementing various projects

The schemes to be implemented immediately entail coordinating search and salvation operating procedures, setting up excitable lines, sharing airline passenger lists, strengthening border hinders and conducting joint training and exercises to combat terrorism and other transnational crimes.

Besides terrorism, the transnational crimes that are veiled in the agreement include moneylaundering, smuggling and physic trafficking, hijacking, illegal note theft of marine resources, marine pollution, piracy and illegal trafficking in women and children.

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