Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar's military to avoid attack on border

People gather at a checkpoint near the 1st Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, April 12, 2024. Myanmar residents cross the 1st Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, April 12, 2024. Myanmar soldiers are seen on the Myanmar side of a bridge across the Moei River linking to the district of Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on April 11, 2024. Military personnel stand guard as a stream of people queued at a border crossing to flee Myanmar, after the strategically-vital town of Myawaddy adjoining Thailand fell to anti-junta resistance, in Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand, April 12, 2024.

Thailand's foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar's military authorities not to violently respond to its army's loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far they seemed to be exercising restraint.