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Asia-Europe Meeting - ASEM Bangkok (1996)

 

 

 Issue Name:

Asia-Europe Meeting - ASEM Bangkok 1996

 Thai Issue Name:

การประชุมเอเชียยุโรป - อาเซม กรุงเทพมหานคร 2539

 Issue Date:

1996/2539-03-01

 Cause:

To commemorate the 1996 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), i.e. the first ever summit, held in Bangkok on 1 and 2 March 1996, the year in which this exclusively Eurasian forum was officially established.

 Catalogue Number:

1996/6

 Denomination:

2 Baht

 Unused Value:

6 Baht

 Used Value:

4 Baht

 Thailex Collection:

Unused stamp

 Size:

45 x 27 mm

 Quantity of Stamps:

2,000,000 pieces

 Printer:

Thai British Security Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand

 Subject:

An Asian and an European shaking hands, with in the background a yellow map of Asia and Europe, in which the host country of Thailand is coloured red. Below the design is the ASEM logo, i.e. a highly stylized capital letter A, with the left leg in blue and the right leg in yellow, of which the top also refers to the summit.

 Related Link:

Thailand, Bangkok, ASEAN