On Monday, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel during a visit to Thailand made controversial remarks urging the coup-imposed government to lift martial law and ensure "inclusive" national reform, adding that the impeachment of country's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra could be considered as "politically driven."
The parliament's foreign affairs committee has invited Murphy to a meeting scheduled on February 11 in order to comment on Russel's remarks, as well as on the reports suggesting that US diplomats attempted to meet with leaders of the Red Shirts movement, supporting the deposed Thai government, at least three times in 2014.
Kitti added that the United States still wants to "nurture" its relationship with Thailand, but stressed Washington "might have made a wrong move by saying something inappropriate in public."
On Friday, Thailand's Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his weekly televised address to the nation, urged western diplomats not to come to wrong conclusions about the situation in the country after talking to only some political groups.
The political crisis erupted in Thailand in 2013 with mass protests against the government of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
In May 2014, General Prayut staged a military coup against Shinawatra and seized the power. In August 2014 he was elected the country's new prime minister.
