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BANGKOK, Feb 27 (TNA) – Last Update : 2006-02-27 / 07:49:01 (GMT+7:00)

Caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has still neither accepted nor rejected the opposition’s proposal for a pact for him to sign to set up an independent committee to amend the constitution, saying he has let his party’s legal experts study its detail first.

Speaking of the proposal by the opposition on the matter, he said he had not yet seen its detail.

Mr. Bhokin Bhalakula, deputy leader of the Thai-Rak-Thai (TRT) Party and Mr. Pongthep Thepkanjana, member of the party’s executive committee, were assigned to go through the proposed pact.

Mr. Thaksin reiterated that his Thai-Rak-Thai Party has never obstructed the political reform if the revamp is made rationally.

He said deans of universities around the country had been assigned to study the political reform and constitution amendment because he wants to see a study of the revamp systematically, rather than emotionally.

“Everybody should not do things based on emotion. They should play by rule. Should the political reform be made technically and properly, my party is ready to support,” he said.

Mr. Thaksin conceded that people feel unhappy where there are any worsening political conflicts.

“It is a good thing if we can do to keep order and peace in the country and build national reconciliation,” he added. (TNA) – E005