CANBERRA, May 28 – Australia has agreed to consider lifting its ban on Thai chicken meat and frozen shrimp as requested by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday, in the first action from her trip down under. The likely move follows the European Union’s lifting of its import ban on such goods.

Ms Yingluck and Australian PM Julia Gillard met at Parliament House in Canberra on the two countries’ bilateral, regional and wider international cooperation.

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