Coup puts Dawei talks in holding pattern

Any talks between Thailand and Myanmar to settle fallout from the Dawei development project have to be shelved until Myanmar’s military reaches an agreement on its government, says Deputy Prime Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow.

Mr Supattanapong, who is chairman of the Thai-Myanmar Joint High-Level Committee (JHC) for the Dawei special economic zone (DSEZ), said each of the related agencies comprising the Finance Ministry, Foreign Ministry and the National Economic and Social Development Council have not found any solutions to the cancelled Dawei contract for SET-listed Italian-Thai Development (ITD).

“The Thai government is not a contracting party with the DSEZ Management Committee [DSEZ MC], but pledges to help private companies…