Thailand will host an international symposium on the rule of law in the Thai capital city next month.

Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the Thai ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria and former chair of the 21st UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, will preside over the opening ceremony for the seminar, entitled the Bangkok Dialogue on Rule of Law on Nov. 15, according to Thai Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri.

The seminar, the first of its kind in Thailand, will be attended by distinguished academics, world leaders and dignitaries including Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

The event will primarily discuss ways and means to promote and maintain rule of law in all nations around the globe on sustainable, peaceful basis, Chaikasem said.