A scheduled breakfast meeting between foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea, has been canceled as Thailand's "red-shirt" anti-government demonstrators blocked the road Saturday morning.
About a few hundred demonstrators in red-shirt blocked the road leading to the Dusit Thani hotel and rallied outside the hotel gate in North Pattya, where delegations from China and South Korea were staying for the ASEAN Plus Three summits scheduled to kick off on Saturday.
The blockade has caused the cancellation of a breakfast meeting between foreign ministers between the Plus Three countries, since the Japanese minister, who stayed in a nearby hotel, could not get in the Dusit Thani hotel to meet with his counterparts from China and South Korea.
However, the foreign ministers from China and South Korea did have a brief talk since the two delegations were staying in the same hotel.
Chinese delegation told Xinhua that by far the Thai government has not announced a decision to a cancellation to the ASEAN-China summit, scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (0200 GMT) Saturday morning.
The Thai side also offered to transport the delegations out of the hotel by sea or air means to get to the Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, the venue for the ASEAN-China summit, if the blockade continue, but it depends on the delegation's decision.
Source: Xinhua
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