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Thai PM hosts lunch for top brass to introduce new defence minister

The press was not allowed to cover this meeting.

Sources said the luncheon meeting kicked off at 11.30am at the Rosewood Hotel on Ploenchit Road, and that the atmosphere was “amicable”.

Apart from Sutin, Srettha also introduced Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Panpree Phathithanukorn to the top brass.

Sources said the meeting talked about military policies in general without going into details.

Sources added that Sutin was scheduled to meet academics who are experts on security affairs, including Prof Surachart Bamrungsuk, who lectures at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science.

The defence minister had also met and discussed the subject with another academic, Paisal Puechmongkol, last week.

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