Thai PM:There has been no plan for curfew in far South

BANGKOK, August 7 (TNA) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has confirmed that her government has no plan to impose a curfew in Thailand's insurgency-plagued far South for the time being. In response to reports that the insurgency in the troubled Thai deep South may have been escalated into guerilla warfare, Yingluck told reporters on Tuesday that she did not want to give any comment on such the sensitive issue, insisting that her administration will, however, seriously implement strategic solutions to the problem in a unified manner as targeted. Yingluck said that she has assigned Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa, who oversees national security, to ensure effective cooperation among concerned agencies on implementing the strategic solutions and Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung and Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit to have their subordinates, including police and other officials concerned, to support the government's solutions. The Pheu Thai prime minister urged the opposition camp, led by the Democrat Party, to share useful information with the government to support peace restoration in the southernmost region. Meanwhile, Government Spokeswoman Sansanee Nakpong told a press conference that the Thai Cabinet agreed at its weekly meeting Tuesday morning that the government's solutions to the southern unrest have been on the right track. Besides, the Cabinet resolved to set up a command center to coordinate security operations of relevant parties in the Thai far South, namely the military, the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center or SBPAC and the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC). (TNA)