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President Yudhoyono Urges Thailand to End Martial Law


Sunday October 29, 2006

Further, Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News reports that on Saturday, 21 October, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoytono met visiting 's new military-backed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and urged the Thai Prime Minister to lift martial law, that was put in place after the kingdom's bloodless coup last month. 

President Yudhoyono also told PM Surayud that, based on ’s experiences, a military solution to an insurgency raging in 's south was unlikely to work, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda told reporters. 

PM Surayud met with President Yudhoyono during a one-day visit to Jakarta, his latest stop in a flurry of introductory diplomatic visits to Southeast Asian capitals since he was installed as leader by the junta in Bangkok . "The president conveyed to the Thai Prime Minister that following his communications with other world leaders, he strongly suggests that the emergency situation in be revoked in the near future," Wirayuda said after the talks. 

In response, "The Thai Prime Minister said that he would consider it carefully and noted that the fact remained there was still potential for security disturbances in after the coup," Wirayuda added. 

PM Surayud told the Indonesian President that he had been "inspired" by the peace pact Jakarta agreed with separatist rebels in Aceh province in August 2005. has been involved in helping to monitor the peace process in Aceh. "The president said that from our experience in managing the conflict situation in Aceh, a military solution will not solve the problem," Wirayuda said. 

Surayud's post-coup government has already vowed to try to resolve the long-running insurgency in Thailand's Muslim-majority south peacefully.