PUBLISHED: 10 May 2025 at 03:30
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra issued a statement on social media on Thursday, stressing the need for combined efforts with Malaysia to stop the crime in the deep South.
Mr Paetongtarn took to X, previously Online, on Thursday nights and referred to a phone call she had with her Malay rival, Anwar Ibrahim.
” We agreed to attend the opening of the new transborder path linking the fresh Sadao-Bukit Kayu Hitam gates and to hold a combined cabinet meeting that later this time,” her article said. ” We stressed the importance of seeing the withdrawal of violence in Thailand’s southern border regions, as well as the need to work closely together on frontier area growth. “
The mobile phone came following a surge in crime in Thailand’s heavy South and back of a possible new round of peace deals between the state and the rebels.
Mr Paetongtarn chaired two safety meetings this week on the heavy South.
On Friday, she met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Phumtham Wechayachai, federal police captain Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch, and Arsit Sampantharat, Permanent Secretary of the Interior. On Thursday, the prime minister met army commander Gen Pana Klaewblaudtuk.
In another X post on Friday, the prime minister said it was agreed at the meetings to integrate work with the Internal Security Operations Command ( Isoc ) Region 4 Forward Command, comprising military, police, and civilians who can cooperate “both defensively and proactively”.
” There will be assistance at provincial, city, and community levels to create a good knowing,” she said.