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Created
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09BANGKOK226
2009-01-29 03:36:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Bangkok
Cable title:
THAI GOVERNMENT SOLICITS USG SUPPORT FOR A THAI
how-toDavid A Kirby 01/30/2009 09:54:21 AM From DB/Inbox: David A Kirby Cable Text: UNCLASSIFIED TELEGRAM January 29, 2009 To: SECSTATE WASHDC - ROUTINE Action: INL From: AMEMBASSY BANGKOK (BANGKOK 226 - ROUTINE) TAGS: AORC, PREL, TH Captions: None Subject: THAI GOVERNMENT SOLICITS USG SUPPORT FOR A THAI CANDIDATE, MR. VIROJ SUMYAI, FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD MEMBERSHIP Ref: None _________________________________________________________________ Additional Addressees: None cc: AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS Distribution: TED7024 ACTION INL-00 INFO LOG-00 AID-00 CIAE-00 DNI-00 DODE-00 DS-00 EAP-00 E-00 FBIE-00 UTED-00 VCI-00 H-00 TEDE-00 INR-00 IO-00 MOFM-00 MOF-00 CDC-00 VCIE-00 NSAE-00 OES-00 SSO-00 SS-00 T-00 FMP-00 DSCC-00 PRM-00 G-00 NFAT-00 SAS-00 FA-00 SWCI-00 /000W ------------------241985 290339Z /38 R 290336Z JAN 09 FM AMEMBASSY BANGKOK TO SECSTATE WASHDC 5851 INFO ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI
UNCLAS BANGKOK 000226
DEPT. FOR INL, IO, AND EAP/MLA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL TH
SUBJECT: THAI GOVERNMENT SOLICITS USG SUPPORT FOR A THAI
CANDIDATE, MR. VIROJ SUMYAI, FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
UNCLAS BANGKOK 000226
DEPT. FOR INL, IO, AND EAP/MLA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL TH
SUBJECT: THAI GOVERNMENT SOLICITS USG SUPPORT FOR A THAI
CANDIDATE, MR. VIROJ SUMYAI, FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
1. (U) Post is in receipt of diplomatic note number
1004/C1947 from the Royal Thai Government's (RTG) Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, dated December 26, 2008. The note solicits
the support of the USG for Mr. Viroj Sumyai, Assistant
Secretary General for Narcotic Drugs Suppression, an office
within the Thai Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of
Public Health, as a candidate for membership of the
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for the term
running between 2010 and 2015. The election for this
position will be held during the resumed organizational
session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC),during April-May 2009, in New York. The RTG
configures this candidate as highly qualified and emblematic
of Thailand's commitment to the work of the INCB.
2. (U) Mr. Viroj's CV shows him to have been educated in
Pharmacology at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, at
Manila Central University in the Philippines, and to have
apprenticed in narcotics drugs epidemiology at St. George's
University in England. In addition to his current posting
with the RTG's Food and Drug Administration, he has been the
Director of the Narcotics Control Division within the Thai
FDA (1988-2001). He has published nine articles and
handbooks on psychotropic drugs, pharmacopathology, and
treatment of addicts, two of them in international journals.
3. (U) Post has inquired into Mr. Viroj's record regarding
issues of importance to the USG and has not found any
indication that he has taken positions inimical to US
interests. Post believes that Mr. Viroj would be a suitable
candidate for this position and requests that this request
for USG support be given every due consideration.
JOHN
DEPT. FOR INL, IO, AND EAP/MLA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PREL TH
SUBJECT: THAI GOVERNMENT SOLICITS USG SUPPORT FOR A THAI
CANDIDATE, MR. VIROJ SUMYAI, FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
CONTROL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
1. (U) Post is in receipt of diplomatic note number
1004/C1947 from the Royal Thai Government's (RTG) Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, dated December 26, 2008. The note solicits
the support of the USG for Mr. Viroj Sumyai, Assistant
Secretary General for Narcotic Drugs Suppression, an office
within the Thai Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of
Public Health, as a candidate for membership of the
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for the term
running between 2010 and 2015. The election for this
position will be held during the resumed organizational
session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC),during April-May 2009, in New York. The RTG
configures this candidate as highly qualified and emblematic
of Thailand's commitment to the work of the INCB.
2. (U) Mr. Viroj's CV shows him to have been educated in
Pharmacology at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, at
Manila Central University in the Philippines, and to have
apprenticed in narcotics drugs epidemiology at St. George's
University in England. In addition to his current posting
with the RTG's Food and Drug Administration, he has been the
Director of the Narcotics Control Division within the Thai
FDA (1988-2001). He has published nine articles and
handbooks on psychotropic drugs, pharmacopathology, and
treatment of addicts, two of them in international journals.
3. (U) Post has inquired into Mr. Viroj's record regarding
issues of importance to the USG and has not found any
indication that he has taken positions inimical to US
interests. Post believes that Mr. Viroj would be a suitable
candidate for this position and requests that this request
for USG support be given every due consideration.
JOHN