The National Security Council (NSC) is not confident that it will be able to fully control civil unrest when anti-government and pro-government demonstrators take to the streets.
"With so many people out on the streets, we don't have the confidence," NSC secretary general Paradorn Pattanatabut said yesterday.
However Paradorn insisted that security agencies would do their best. "We will closely monitor the situation and prevent any confrontation between the two sides," he said.
Tension is apparently rising as independent agencies are expected to deliver their rulings on some cases against caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra very soon.
"Key factors are the rulings from independent agencies," Paradorn said.