The Thai government has prepared measures to handle with an anti-government protest reportedly planned on Feb. 14, said deputy government spokesperson Puttipong Punnakan on Thursday.

The government has appointed Metropolitan Police commissioner Suchart Muenkaew to oversee the rally situation and he will start closely monitoring the situation from Thursday, said the deputy government spokesperson, quoting by the website of Thai-language newspaper Thai Rath.

The government would like to ask for cooperation from Thai people, urging them not to participate in the rally since it will damage the country's image ahead of the forthcoming Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, said Puttipong.

The ASEAN summit is planned to be held in the central resort town in Hua Hin of Thailand's southern province of Prachuab Khirikhan from Feb. 27 to March 1.

According to the deputy spokesperson, it is reportedly said there is an attempt to persuade as many as people to join the rally.

Initially, the government will avoid violence and will negotiate with protesters to rally peacefully without destroying or siege state-owned places, said Puttipong.

If the situation is out of control, there will be a human wall (by police) without weapons. And, if police still can not control the situation, police will use shields and batons to deal with it.If it gets worse, police will use water, he said.

Meanwhile, the army is ready to support, if police can not handle it, said the spokesperson.

However on Thursday, Nattawut Saikua, a leader of the anti-government group -- the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) denied they would hold the rally on Feb. 14.

The government might have been too much worried, Nattawut told Xinhua, adding the UDD will hold a press conference on Feb. 14 in order to announce an exact date for the group's next rally.

On Jan. 31, the UDD group announced during its mass rally in front of the Government House that the group will give a 15-day ultimatum for the government to meet their political demands or face with a prolonged rally by the UDD group.

The UDD's political demands include dismissing Foreign MinisterKasit Piromya, reinstating the 1997 Constitution, prosecuting the People Alliance for Democracy's (PDD) leaders for seizing Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports, and dissolving the lower House.