
Prawit and the entourage arrived at the International Security Operations Command’s Area 4 Forward Command at 9am, to be briefed on the progress of projects being carried out this year to develop the southern border provinces.
Prawit chairs the policy and strategy mobilising committee.
He was accompanied by Deputy Defence Minister General Udomdej Sitabutr, Deputy Education Minister General Surachet Chaiwong, Army chief General Chalermchai Sitthisart and Police Commissioner General Chakthip Chaijinda.
Udomdej also chairs a special Cabinet forward command committee on the deep South.
They met with Fourth Army Area commander Lt-General Piyawat Nakwanti, Pol Lt-General Ronnasilp Phusara, the commissioner of the police bureau for the southern border provinces, and Supanat Siranthawineti, secretary general of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre.