PUBLISHED: 7 Oct 2024 at 15: 22
During a meeting with Egyptian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra definitely defended her choice to read out an American statement on an iPad.
According to the state site, Ms. Paetongtarn claimed on Monday that she used the pill to make sure all communications were delivered without mistakes at international meetings.
In foreign conferences, speakers of all languages use English. It involves use of language, with legal repercussions and differences in global relations”, she afterward told writers. Reading off a system like an iphones was a very common practice all over the world.
During a diplomatic appointment with the Iranian president on Thursday, some people have questioned the suitability of the primary minister as a national leader using an iPad. A , movie clip showed her looking at the system, reading out a speech, while Mr Pezeshkian attentively looked on, during their meeting in Doha, Qatar.
The Egyptian president spoke in Farsi, the country’s standard speech, when it was his turn, while the prime minister spoke in English.
Iran was in charge of the meeting at the Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD ) summit this year, and the meeting took place on the sidelines of that summit.
It was not known if the prime minister even read from a product at other times during the discussions on Wednesday and Thursday. Emomali Rahmon, the leader of Tajikistan, and Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah, the crown prince of Kuwait, spoke with Ms. Paetongtarn in diplomatic deals.
Phumthai Wechayachai, the vice prime minister, defended the prime minister, saying that the community should prioritize substance over form, and that the criticism was “nonsense.”  ,
” Substance is key to foreign agreements, no things like iphones”, he said.
On Friday, Ms. Paetongtarn expressed satisfaction with her first global exposure.
Next month, Thailand will assume the head of the 35-member ACD.  ,