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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP ) -- Thailand has summoned Singapore's ambassador to discuss why ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was granted a meeting with a top official during a visit to the island nation, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Thaksin met recently with Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister S. Jayakumar during one of many trips he has taken in Asia since being ousted from power in a September 19 coup. Coup leaders say the trips are politically motivated and last week revoked Thaksin's diplomatic passport.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kitti Wasinondh declined to discuss details of the meeting, saying only: "The ministry has summoned the ambassador of Singapore to discuss the matter this morning."
Coup leaders and Thailand's military-installed government have been embarrassed by Thaksin's travels, including trips to China, Hong Kong and Indonesia, that have made front-page headlines back home.
Singapore's Foreign Ministry said it had no immediate comment, but in a statement issued Sunday described Jayakumar as an "old friend" of Thaksin's and said their meeting was "purely social and private."
The military council that removed Thaksin has renewed attempts to muzzle the media and its coverage of Thaksin. The generals asked broadcasters last week to limit coverage of comments by Thaksin and his representatives in the name of national unity, prompting a media outcry but succeeding in blocking certain broadcasts.
A CNN interview with Thaksin broadcast elsewhere Monday evening was not shown in Thailand.
Cable TV provider UBC decided "not to broadcast the interview" and instead repeated an earlier program, said a UBC official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The official said there had been no particular order from coup leaders not to air the interview.
CNN representatives in Bangkok could not immediately be reached for comment.
Since the coup, the military and the temporary government it installed have blamed Thaksin and his supporters for trying to cause unrest to destabilize the country. Thaksin has denied the allegations, for which no evidence has been produced.
Thaksin has been barred from returning to the country since the coup.
In the CNN interview, Thaksin repeated that he has retired from politics.
"Enough is enough," he said, adding that it was time to "contribute to the Thai society outside (the) political arena."
In a separate interview published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, Thaksin said he would not try to return to power and criticized the new government's economic policies.
"I reassure them they shouldn't feel worried about me," he said, adding that he will not seek to regain his old job -- but will remain a member of his political party. He also said Thailand must better prepare for economic competition.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to live under a capitalist system," he was quoted as saying on the newspaper's Web site. "And to live in it successfully, we have to open up our economy and our society. Competition is unavoidable so we have to prepare for it."
Thaksin said the new government's about-face on stock market capital controls has destroyed investor confidence.
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