Shinawatra proposes committee to decide his future

Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra today offered to set up an independent committee to resolve the country’s political impasse and vowed to accept any decision it might render – including a demand for his resignation.

Thaksin said he was willing to set up a neutral committee comprised of three former prime ministers, three former supreme court chairmen and three former heads of Parliament to represent different points of view in the crisis, which revolves around demands by his critics that he step down because of alleged corruption and abuse of power.