OPINION

UN knockback shows Thai parochialism

News, Surin Pitsuwan, Published on 04/07/2016

» Thailand's failure to win a United Nations Security Council non-permanent seat last week was a big disappointment, but not totally unexpected. My first advice, as a senior member of Team Thailand to the UN Security Council, is that we must have a secondary objective, an alternative goal for ourselves: "Win or lose, Thailand will come out of this campaign with our profile higher and our responsible presence in the community better appreciated than before."