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BANGKOK (XFN-ASIA) - Army-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont rejected calls from the nation's ruling junta to impose emergency rule in Bangkok to crack down on anti-coup protests.'The current situation is not serious enough to require emergency rule,' he said.'But the government is prepared in case the situation worsens, and I am empowered' to declare a state of emergency, he added.'The government will try to talk with every party to prevent the situation from deteriorating to that point,' he said.'I don't want to see clashes among Thai people,' he added.Surayud spoke one day after the junta leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, told Agence France-Presse that he wanted the government to declare an emergency in Bangkok to crack down on swelling protests.Authorities in Bangkok said they have decided to close a park where protesters had planned to stage a new rally tomorrow.afp/net
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