We reproduce below the address by H.E. Korn Dabbaransi, Deputy Premier and Minister for Health on:
Deputy Premier and Minister for Health H.E. Kern Dabbaransi giving a lecture at Bang Na Campus on December 8, 2000.
Deputy Premier and Health Minister H.E. Kom Dabbaransi accepting a sourvenir from Vice President for Administrative Affairs Dr.Chavalit Meennuch after giving a talk to students at Bang Na Campus.
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THE ROLE OF PRIVATE SECTOR IN SUPPORTING POLITICAL STABILITY
Private sector organisation's have tremendous roles to play in enhancing political stability and in inducing quality and morality in Thai politicians. The four main sectors that produce good politicians in a society are:
- Education: Education sector can provide intellectuals to guide the politicians. Educational institutions should guide and persuade the public to choose only honest and capable candidates to the parliament. A good politician justifies his/her success by his/her way of living, his/her vision of country's development that is based on the perceptions and aspirations of Thai people.
- Mass media: Mass media operators and workers must have the power and the autonomy to provide the public with right information. Moreover they must have moral courage to investigate the transparency of politicians.
- Economic Organsations: Free competition among private sectors must be maintained. The greater the competition greater benefits will be enjoyed by Thai people including more choices for products and services. Monopoly is an intolerable evil. We all have
realized that our recent economic collapse was due to lack of skills and weak structure of our financial sector and we must remain alert to prevent recurrence of such mismanagement and reckless squandering of our resources in future.
- Political Institutions: Private sector must always be able and willing to investigate the performance of politicians and pass judgement on them. As guardians of our people's morals we must put pressure for elimination of corruption and bribery. In collaboration with educational institutes we have to support political reforms to create truly democratic institutions and a viable system of government. All in all private sector organisations must be impartial, and enlightened as otherwise our endeavours to improve our standards, values and visions will not be successful and Thailand will remain a backwater where globalisation, socioeconomic and technological advancement are concerned.
Reported by A. Charn Mayot
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