JAKARTA: Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told Reuters on the sidelines of the summit he will go to the polls on July 3. With elections approaching, the border issue is one which he can try to use to unite Thais behind him. He will certainly not be looking to make any concessions that would lose him votes. The party seen as the biggest rival of Abhisit's Democrats is Peua Thai, a political vehicle for exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Abhisit insisted that Thailand wanted peace. “The ultimate objective must be to achieve lasting peace, so that both our peoples can live peacefully side-by-side along the Thai-Cambodian border,” he said in a press briefing.
