Anti-government protesters in Thailand have forced the postponement of a summit of Asian leaders, a Thai government official has said.
Hundreds of demonstrators prevented leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) from attending their meetings on Saturday by blocking the entrance to their hotel in the beach resort of Pattaya.
The protesters stormed a building hosting the summit, honking horns and chanting slogans against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva, the prime minister, whom they want to resign.
Shortly afterwards, Abhisit lifted a state of emergency imposed earlier in Pattaya after protesters forced the cancellation of the Asean summit.
Abhisit said the main task of his government was to ensure that the Asean leaders return home safely.
“I have completed my task and have ordered the lifting of the state of emergency,” he said in a brief televised statement.
Some Asean leaders were evacuated from Pattaya by helicopter, security officials said.
The protesters declared victory thereafter and withdrew peacefully from the summit venue.
Thani Thongphakdi, the deputy spokesman from the Thai ministry of foreign affairs, told Al Jazeera on Saturday: “Leaders have expressed their understanding and it was agreed that the meeting would effectively be postponed.”The red-shirted protesters, supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai prime minister ousted in 2006, have called for the resignation of Abhisit, saying his government is illegitimate.
They say the government is not empowered to sign any summit agreements, because the prime minister came to power in December through parliamentary defections they say were engineered by the army.
Sean Boonpracong, a spokesman for the pro-Thaksin Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) – the group leading the anti-government protests - told Al Jazeera: “We are satisfied that we are showing ourselves in force, to show that all is not well politically in Thailand.
“We feel like the larger issues in society have not been addressed at all. There is no justice in Thailand today.”
Rival protesters - both monarchists and pro-Thaksin supporters - clashed among themselves, throwing stones and smoke bombs at each other about five kilometres from the venue.
A Thai official said two or three people were injured in the clashes. Authorities were investigating reports of shots fired and an explosion.
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and rudd has to return home with his grand plans for eastasia on hold..nice work redshirts
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