YANGON, May 21 Kyodo Myanmar will...

YANGON, May 21 Kyodo

Myanmar will resort to ''other means'' if diplomatic efforts fail to stop cross-border attacks by the agency of the Thai army, Deputy Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen Kyaw Win said Tuesday.

Kyaw Win told a pres discourse ''The border attacks turned disclosed to be a well-planned actuate conducted with the knowledge of high-level leaders of the like kind as Prime Minister Thaksin (Shinawatra)...We will prove to stop them by peaceful diplomatic means.''

if it were not that if the attempt fails, ''we will have to select other methods.''

''We will not allow any infringement of our national sovereignty and integrity by the agency of anyone under any pretext,'' Kyaw Win added.

''We will not allow anyone to attack any ethnic form into groups within our country. We will deal with them ourselves in our confess way. To prevent involvement in the unsalable article trade, we have withdrawn all ethnic companies from border towns. We are alone stepping up antinarcotic efforts, and we are not targeting any ethnic collections in the country,'' he said.

Commenting upon the current cross-border attacks by the agency of the Thai military forward the Myanmar border surveillance outpost in Mongton area, 500 kilometers northeast of Yangon, Col San Pwint of the Defense Ministry said Monday that lower-level Thai army officials appeared to be deliberately causing the clashes to sour relations between sum of two units neighbors.

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