The President's Weekly Address
09/11/2009
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I reiterated continued U.S. support for the development of the Mekong sub-region.
Thailand is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia.
I look forward to Thailand's co-hosting of the ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise with the Republic of Korea in 2013.
We absolutely do not think that they are at the end of the road; they're at the beginning of the road of a democratic transition.