Thailand to intensify efforts to resolve Myanmar crisis

BANGKOK -- Thailand is intensifying efforts to resolve the Myanmar crisis and will expand engagement with relevant parties, a key official told Nikkei Asia, citing meetings with stakeholders such as regional officials, ethnic resistance groups and countries like China, India and the U.S.

Thai Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sihasak Phuangketkeow said in an interview that Thailand is also fast-tracking plans to send humanitarian aid to displaced people inside Myanmar and to establish a center on the Thai-Myanmar border to oversee assistance -- initially food aid and medical supplies -- with the help of the Red Cross Society of Myanmar and of Thailand.