June 4, 2013, at 1230hrs, in front of the Cabinet Secretariat Building, Government House, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gave an interview on the warning of Moody's Investors Service to review Thailand’s rating due to the losses in the Government’s rice pledging scheme that she had assigned Ministry of Finance to follow up closely with the analysis of Moody’s and expressed readiness in providing necessary information. As for data analysis and the exact deficit figures, Ministry of Commerce would soon report to the cabinet. However, so far, the Commerce Minister had already clarified in the National Assembly meeting that recent report of the deficit figures was not correct. Concerned agencies had to review and come up with the correct data.
PM: Government ready to provide information on rice pledging scheme to Moody’s The Prime Minister assigned Ministry of Commerce to investigate and clarify rice pledging scheme’s deficit.
The Prime Minister assigned Ministry of Commerce to investigate and clarify rice pledging scheme’s deficit.