The Defense Council has approved the draft law to prevent coups, which will be submitted to the Cabinet to be sent alongside the draft law of political parties. Suthin has urged the armed forces to help people in times of flooding and to provide advance warnings. He has emphasized that the borders should prevent illegal activities.
Rear Admiral Thanitpong Sirisawetsak, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, announced after the Defense Council meeting that Mr. Suthin Khlangsaeng, Minister of Defense, has ordered units under the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces to integrate work with relevant agencies, such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the Ministry of Interior, to manage the entire water system to be ready for preventing and solving flooding problems during the rainy season, including providing assistance and taking care of the people quickly, comprehensively, and in a timely manner.
as well as closely monitoring and keeping watch on the water situation and informing the public
of warnings correctly and promptly to help alleviate the suffering of the people affected by the flood problem. When the situation improves to normal, quickly survey the damage and proceed according to the plan and steps for assistance, compensation, and rehabilitation after the water recedes.
He also ordered the units under the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces to strictly monitor and intercept illegal acts that affect security along the border in all dimensions, such as drug trafficking, weapons of war, and all types of illegal goods, illegal immigration and human trafficking, destruction of natural resources and the environment, as well as transnational crime and terrorism by integrating and coordinating operations with relevant security agencies to prevent and solve such problems, as well as continuously and seriously enforcing the law against groups of offenders and their accomplices, which will help the border management achieve tangible results in practice in accordance with the government’s po
licy.
The Defense Council meeting also approved the draft amendments to the Defense Ministry Administration Act (No. …) B.E. … and the draft Military Court Act (No. …) B.E. … The next step will be to send it to the Secretariat of the Council for consideration by the Cabinet. It will then be included in the agenda for consideration by the Council along with the draft laws of the various political parties.
The reporter reported that the main point of the draft amendment to the Defense Ministry Administration Act is to prevent coups, giving the Prime Minister the power, with the approval of the Cabinet, to order the suspension of military personnel who are considering a coup
Source: Thai News Agency