Malaysia’s peace talks facilitator Gen Zulkifli Zainal Abidin during an interview with Thai PBS World last week.
The Malaysian facilitator for the southern peace talks process said he is optimistic that there will be “concrete” development by the end of this year with a new round of dialogue expected to take place in February.
He said one of the challenges is how to get the representatives of the Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the main separatist group taking part in the peace dialogue, to agree to what he described as “the endgame.”
In an interview with Thai PBS World during his visit to Bangkok last week, Gen Zulkifli Zainal Abidin he hopes to have the next round of peace dialogue in Kuala Lumpur next month to set the agenda and objectives for the peace process which was stalled because of Thailand’s political changes following the general…
