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Army to open checkpoints



                                                          
                                        October 24, 1998 
                       BORDER

 Army to open
 checkpoints

 To facilitate log imports from Burma

 The army will open temporary border checkpoints to facilitate
 delivery of logs into the country from Burma and Cambodia as
 requested by the Interior Ministry and the Forestry Department, the
 army chief said.

 The logs belong to Thai companies with concessions for logging
 operations in those countries.

 Gen Surayud Chulanont said the logs would be checked carefully to
 ensure they had not been cut on the Thai side and transported across
 the border.

 The army chief added that how many checkpoints were to be opened
 would be decided after consultation with the Interior Ministry and
 other agencies concerned.

 He did not say when their opening would take place, but said they
 would remain open until year's end.

 A source said the checkpoints to be opened were likely to be at the
 An Ma Pass in Ubon Ratchathani and the Chong Chom Pass in Surin
 to facilitate delivery of logs from Cambodia, and at some points on the
 Thai-Burmese border.

 To protect forest and game reserves, especially in the Salween
 National Park straddling Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces, the Third
 Army has since June set up a task force to look after them and arrange
 for Karen refugees fleeing fighting in Burma to be kept together at
 holding centres.

                                                       
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