BANGKOK, March 14 – National Security Council (NSC) chief Lt Gen Paradorn Pattanathabut said today that the Center for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) will ask the cabinet next week to lift a two-month state of emergency imposed in the Thai capital and its adjacent provinces to handle the anti-government protesters.

NSC secretary-general Gen Paradorn, said the meeting of security agencies agreed to raise the idea with the cabinet next Tuesday as the emergency decree is due to expire March 22.

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