Three counties to be visited by Phumtham.
PUBLISHED: 19 Apr 2025 at 05: 28
According to Defense Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, the state is set to pull military law in four regions of the three southeastern border regions.
After a portable cupboard meeting in Songkhla on February 17 to decide that the enforcing of military law in the four regions of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat, he said he plans to meet with state authorities to talk about the raising of martial law.
According to Mr. Phumtham, who likewise serves as a deputy prime minister, “efforts to end the conflict in the deep southern are making improvement.”
On April 26 through to join local traders, city leaders, police officers, soldiers, and representatives from the Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 Forward Command, he added that he will travel to the three southern frontier provinces Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat to get ideas before settling down on a new strategy to combat the unrest in the heavy South.
Additionally, according to Mr. Phumtham, no decision has been made regarding the selection of a new peace negotiation team to address the issue in the three southern regions. This will depend on the new plan adopted by the government, which will determine the course of the harmony work, he said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim praised diplomatic discussions with Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a information posted on social media on Friday.
I expressed my gratitude to Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for her solid commitment to strengthening Malaysia-Thailand relationships during our diplomatic meeting.
We applauded the accomplishments of the existing contracts, especially those that aim to encourage economic growth in northern Thailand and northern Malaysia.
These initiatives will help us meet our US$ 30 billion destination by 2027, with Thailand then acting as Malaysia’s sixth-largest trading partner and amounted to more than US$ 25 billion in total trade next time.
We also consented to promote important tasks, such as the new Rantau Panjang–Sungai Golok gate and flood mitigation projects along the Golok River.
” With the drafting of the Friendship Bridge building contract by our particular officials, we also witnessed a substantial step.” Our conversation also included the topic of US tariffs, which we discussed as a group and expressed our shared responsibility to dialogue and Asian solutions.