The 25th High Level Committee Meeting between senior officers with the Thai and Malaysian military forces was held on Thursday at the Dusit Thani hotel in north Pattaya.
            The Thai contingent was led by General Songkitti Jaggabatara, the supreme commander of the armed forces while the Malaysians were represented by their senior military officer. The one-day talkfest was aimed at the usual broad spectrum of ideas from improving relations between Thailand and Malaysia to ideas on how to solve the on-going insurgency in southern Thailand and stopping illegal cross-border trading.
            At the end of the meeting the two senior commanders exchanged signed memorandums and, flanked by some of their senior officers, gave a couple of short speeches expressing goodwill and fraternity and then the entire group posed for the traditional press photo.