Reconciliation committee needs practical members with a problem-solving approach: Chuan
There has been no progress in setting up a reconciliation committee, as it is waiting for more members with a practical approach, Parliament President Chuan Leekpai said on Friday.
He said there had been no official approach to any person to join the committee, emphasising the need for practical people to solve problems. He added that previous committees could not achieve their goal with only a theoretical approach.
He said that the meeting about the setting up of the committee saw the need for seven sectors to be represented, while King Prajadhipok's Institute believed that it was hard to accomplish that soon, so the panel should start to work with the existing four sectors.
Some guidelines to prevent conflict were also seen as impossible but some still had a silver lining, such as the southern insurgency, he said.
Chuan, who is speaker of the House of Representatives, clarified that the committee was not being established to lessen the opposition’s duties, and it was only meant to create harmony.