The government has sold its tenuous contacts with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and the self-styled the Mara Patani group as a peace process. The government is expected to send its official peace talks team to resume peace talks with the groups on Sept 2 - Friday of next week. Gen Prayut added he didn't want to pay much attention to that, as only mutual sincerity would result in progress. The peace talks consist of two parts: A, formal peace talks, and B, talks with groups which disagree on Part A, said Gen Prayut. The peace talks weren't activities directly between the government and the insurgent groups but the Thai peace talks team and the insurgents.

Source: Bangkok Post August 23, 2016 23:03 UTC