There are no signs of protest on July 17 in the resort island, Bangkok Post online noted. In mid-April, anti-government protesters stormed the venue of 14^th ASEAN summit and Related Summits, scheduled for April 10-12 in another Thai resort city Pattaya, and forced the cancellation of the meeting.

The meetings on July 17 were attended by ASEAN senior officials for document discussion and drafting, and the meeting between foreign ministers will not begin until tomorrow.

ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan was scheduled to visit the meeting venue at the Sheraton Grand Laguna Hotel and the press centre at the Laguna Beach resort Hotel on July 17.

Thai government has enacted the Internal Security Act from July 10 to 24, covering the whole of Phuket Island and 5km offshore, to make sure the same turbulence in April will not happen again.

According to the Act, all forms of protest are forbidden within the are mentioned above.

Leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), whose protest on April 11 forced a halt of the ASEAN Summit in Pattaya, had said earlier that they would not disrupt the meetings in Phuket.

The AMM will be attended by foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their counterparts from ASEAN’s dialogue partners.