Security and The Southern Insurrection
- An increase in military spending. Since 1999, military spending had remained stagnant at approximately $2 billion in 2000 dollars.
- Issuing a formal apology regarding the Tak Bai incident.
- Revealing for the first time to the public that the insurgency was being finance by a network of restaurants and stalls selling Tom Yam Kung in Malaysia. Surayud claimed that the Tom Yam Kung network collected money from local businessmen through blackmail and demands for protection fees and channelled the sum to the separatists. Malaysian Deputy Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow described the revelation as "absolutely baseless," and "very imaginative."
- Appointing Seripisut Temiyavet as Police Commissioner General, replacing Kowit Watana
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