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Ex-premierThaksin Shinawatra has not submitted three petitions asking for royalpardon as reported by the Japan Times newspaper and the Thai media,red-shirt co-leader Natthawut Saikua said on Friday.WhatThaksinsaid in his interview with Japan Times was he submitted three reports about the political turmoil to His Majesty, Natthawut said.Thaksin’sreports to the King were made when he was in Thailand and before hisguilty verdict on the Ratchadapisek land case in 2008, he said,emphasising that the reports were not about royal pardon since at thetimeThaksinwas not penalised with the two-year jail term.
Privy Council unaware of Thaksin’s petition for royal pardon
By The Nation

ThePrivy Council has not received the petition for royal pardon as claimedby ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Vice Admiral Pajun Tamprateep said onFriday.
Pajun, an aide to royal chief adviser General Prem Tinsulanonda, said shouldThaksinwantto seek the royal pardon, he will have to follow the estalishedprocedures by filing his petition via the Office of the His Majesty’sPrincipal Private Secretary.
The office will then forward to the petition for a review by the Privy Council.
The review can be conducted by one of the privy councillors and not necessarily by Prem himself, he said.
In an interview published by a Japanese newspaper,Thaksinsaid he had already petitioned three times to seek the royal pardon. He voiced hope for the royal kindness of His Majesty.
Censure might encounter legal hurdle: Chai
By The NationHouse Speaker Chai Chidchob on Friday hinted that the oppositionmight face a legal hurdle relating to the filing of two motions tocensure the government.
Based on precedents, only one motion of no-confidence should be filed to pave way for the censure debate, Chai said.
ThePheu ThaiPartylodged two motions – one to censure the prime minister as per Article158 of the Constitution and another to grill five Cabinet members asper Article 159, he said.
This has raised the question whether the same list of opposition lawmakers can concurrently sponsored two motions.
The House Secretariat will have til March 19 to check and verify the legalities relating to the two motions.
Shouldthe two motions fail to comply with the legal technicality, the mainopposition party will be advised to rewrite and resubmit the censureplans.
Talks on extradtion treaty with HKLegal team off to Hong Kong next weekBy: BangkokPost.comPublished: 13/03/2009 at 03:51 PMThe Office of the Attorney-General will send alegal team to Hong Kong to take part in talks on a possible extraditiontreaty with Thailand.
The team will be headed by the director-general of the InternationalAffairs Department, Sirisak Tiyaphano. It will comprise three attorneysand a police officer.
They will go to Hong Kong on Tuesday in the company of a delegationfrom the Foreign Ministry’s Treaties and Legal Affairs Department, MrSirisak said.
It was expected that the talks would spread over two or three days.
If there is no agreement on an extradition treaty, then it might notbe possible to bring Thaksin Shinawatra back to Thailand when he visitsHong Kong, he said.
The former prime minister has made several visits to Hong Kong sincehe was removed from government by a coup in September 2006.
On Thursday, he addressed the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong by a video link, reportedly from Dubai.
While the Office of the Attorney-General and the government havebeen looking for ways to get Thaksin back to to Thailand to serve hisjail sentence for conflict of interest in the Ratchadaphgisek landdeal, the Japan Times reported that Thaksin had written three lettersto His Majesty the King seeking a royal pardon.
The Thai media pounced on the report, but a Privy Council spokesmansaid early Friday the office had no knowledge of such a request.
Finally, red-shirts leader Nattawut Saikua, a staunch Thaksin supporter, squashed the report.
He said Thaksin had written to His Majesty the King, but he wasexplaining his side of the political conflict and his court cases.
Thaksin had not asked the King for a pardon, Mr Nattawut said.