Prayut kicks off defence exhibition

Open arms prolonged to foreign site visitors

Style Prayut Chan-o-cha produced his first open public appearance since getting suspended as excellent minister by the Constitutional Court last week, in a defence exhibition in Nonthaburi yesterday.

In his capability as Defence Minister, Gen Prayut, officially launched the Protection & Security 2022 exhibition, being held in the Challenger Hall at the Impact Exhibition and Convention Centre.

This individual declined to answer questions relating to his eight-year term restrict, only saying this individual was in very good spirits as he toured the particular exhibition.

Last Wednesday, the Constitutional Court suspended Gen Prayut because prime minister until it hands down its ruling on his expression limit.

The suspension purchase followed the court’s majority decision to accept an opposition request calling for it to rule on regardless of whether Gen Prayut’s eight-year time limit as excellent minister has ended.

The particular petition, signed by 171 MPs, had been submitted to the court on Aug 22.

The exhibition, which operates until Sept one, has brought together superior weapons and state of the art defence technology from more than 15 nations including the United States, Italy, Israel, Germany, Southern Korea, China and the Czech Republic.

During their opening remarks, Gen Prayut thanked foreign dignitaries, military leaders and entrepreneurs in the defence industry pertaining to putting together one of Asean’s key events.

He frequented booths as he walked through the exhibition corridor that included missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, satellite systems plus firing control systems.

Recording the premier’s interest were a 155mm autonomous truck-mounted weapon and an US Military XM5 assault rifle.

Protection Ministry spokesman Style Kongcheep Tantravanich declared that Gen Prayut after that met with Malaysian Defence Minister Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin rubbish bin Tun Hussein, to discuss bilateral military collaboration to assist with economic development and transborder security along the discussed border.

“Gen Prayut and Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin both agreed on the importance of Asean unity and stressed that Asean member states must work together in order to ensure balanced stability in the region, ” Gen Kongcheep said.

He also greeted Fayyadh bin Hamed bin Raqed ‘s Ruwaili, chairman from the General Staff associated with Saudi Arabia’s armed forces, at the exhibition.