
Paid an official visit to the kingdom of Belgium’s ambassador to Thailand—Mr. Marc.Michelsen
PART1–[BACKGORND]
Seeing from the country home of Famous cartoon character TinTin’s author, the great detective–Poirot as well as the world famous painter– Rubens, even to the headquarter of the EU in midst of the beautiful European Large Square—Brussels, and associating with the battle field as far as the Waterloo Relics during Napoleon wartime taken place in the centuries ago, till now possessing with the world known jewelry processing center and transporting port of European Goods–Antwerp , all these well known names can be linked with the name of a country—called as [BEGIUM],which is situated in Western part of Europe, with its area not large, but it has a coastline of 65 kilometers, with wide beaches, and the famous mountains and forests rendering for the enjoyment of nature, especially for skiing in the winter; Hereby you can discover the walking trip over the Europe’s oldest shopping street—St.Galeries Hubert ,and world famous statue of Peeing Child which is erecting there.
PART 2–[BOND IN HISTORY]
The friendship between Belgium and Thailand, traced back to its history, as early as in1868 ,the both sides had signed a friendly treaty, till now there have been 147 years totally in history of Thailand with Belgium, with the establishment of Belgian residences moving to Soi Pipat area in 1903 ,which signaled the closer ties with Thailand ,the friendship marked with the two countries had upgraded onto the top level of the formal diplomatic relations in 1905.
PART 3–[AN ADVISORY PIONEER]
From Chulalongkorn University of Thailand ,there initially had been with 13 Belgians working as the advisory board, which presented the non-governmental exchanges between the two countries, the general head of advisory group was from Belgium, his name was—H.E.Gustav Jackman, born in 1892, used to be former Belgian foreign minister, with the background of the doctor degree with his achievement unusual was to launch up the institute of international law as sole promoter, he called up the legal persons and law makers from France and Germany, which signed up with the purpose he served to maintain peace and far away the war among the nine European countries in 1902, he acted as the founder as president till in 1909 he was retired and return to Belgium due to his health, marked with those outstanding performance in1904, he was named as the winner of Nobel Peace Prize, and his son received the award as result.
Secondly: there have been academic exchanges between one Belgian church and Tamassat University signing on cooperation on field of the sea research and technological items in partnership.
PART 4–[THE BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP]
Belgium presented a bridge to Thailand, as the result of a state visit by the former prime minster of Thailand in the last century ,in 1980, while he stayed in Brussels there used to be an abandoned bridge, he noticed that value would be utilizing beyond, as the bridge of friendship, the Belgian government presented to the Thai government for free, with aid of one Thai construction company moved to make demolition and transported back to Thailand, after 17 hours in the weekend, with the complete of assembling the parts of the bridge returned to Thailand, which now stands in the center of Bangkok, witnessing the milestone over the friendship between the two countries.
PART 5–[MUTUAL EXCHANGES]
At present, the Belgian companies in Thailand totaled with more than 100, and establishment of Belgium chamber of commerce, with coverage of the jewelry and silver in design and final finish and its processing; machinery, mining industry, engineering construction, chemistry, recycling materials, etc., the private enterprises from the two countries make a closer tie and tribute to the trading cooperation.
In recent years, in Bangkok, the embassy of Belgium run on the themes with Belgium for opening of the festival such as symphony orchestra, the exhibition and paintings, etc.
In this July and August, with over welcoming applause by the spectators, who are hoping for succession which will bring a burst of Belgian cyclone and excellent works and performances in BKK.
PART 6–[BACKGROUND]
The kingdom of Belgium’s ambassador to Thailand, he works on his two terms, he used to be the kingdom of Belgium’s former ambassador to Bulgaria.
Nowadays, the embassy of the kingdom of Belgium to Thailand, at start of the millennium, it moved to this permanent location for official use till now.
Photo by Kingphet / Written by Darwin