{"id":162364,"date":"2025-06-06T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162364\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:32:13","slug":"uk-and-thailand-mark-170-years-of-diplomatic-relations-at-kings-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162364\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Thailand Mark 170 Years of Diplomatic Relations at King&#8217;s Birthday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/world\/organisations\/british-embassy-bangkok\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The British Embassy in Bangkok<\/a> hosted its annual King&#8217;s Birthday Party on 5th June, marking a particularly significant milestone as the United Kingdom and Thailand celebrate 170 years of diplomatic relations and over four centuries of official contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the theme <strong>&#8216;170 Years: Shared History and Shared Future&#8217;<\/strong>, the celebration highlighted the strong partnership between the two nations and their commitment to addressing shared challenges whilst seizing new opportunities together.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Relations between the two countries continue to go from strength to strength,&#8221; said Mark Gooding, British Ambassador to Thailand. &#8220;Today we have close ties between our Royal families, strong co-operation on trade, investment, and security, as well as enduring friendship between the people of the UK and Thailand.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"(centre) Sorawong Thienthong\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-true\" style=\"width: 750px; height: 422px;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tourism and Sports Minister <strong>Sorawong Thienthong<\/strong> described the relationship as a <strong>&#8220;special relationship,&#8221; <\/strong>forged over centuries through royal connections, trade, investment, education, and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the two nations have achieved significant milestones in the past year, including becoming strategic partners\u2014<strong>&#8220;a distinction that the United Kingdom holds so uniquely among European nations.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The British Embassy in Bangkok hosted its annual King&#8217;s Birthday Party on 5th June, marking a particularly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[51705,39019,68332,5105,7710,519,448,731,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-162364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-bilateral-cooperation","9":"tag-bilateral-ties","10":"tag-british-embassy","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-thailand","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114635259513539559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}