Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi offered during his visit to Thailand last week to help mediate the talk between the insurgents and the Thai government.

Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram, however, issued a statement on Wednesday that there was no such plan for such mediation that would necessitate any request.

Surayud declined to say if the negotiation would take place soon and which specific group would attend. "It's a general idea with no detail. We don't want to talk about rice with mango growers," he said.

Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad hold dialogue between socalled separatists and Thai security officials twice last year but the talk yield nothing to contain ongoing violence in the deep south as the separatists to the talk represented old generation of the militants.

 Thai intelligence officials would work out with their counterparts on representatives of militants and attendance to the negotiation.

The government remained no clear idea about militant groups who flared up the predominantly Muslim region since the beginning of 2004 and killed some 2000 people so far. Nobody claimed responsibility for the violence and the authorities fingered to many groups such as well known separatist BRNCoordiante and new emerging name like RKK.  None of the Thai intelligence could identify who really command these militants.

Violence on the group continued yesterday as an explosion in Yala injured six border police on patrol.