Three Southeast Asia nations to meet amid migrant boat crisis

  • 2/10/2023
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KUALA LUMPUR, Rajab 29, 1436, May 18, 2015, SPA -- Malaysia said on Monday that its foreign minister would meet his Thai and Indonesian counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to discuss ways to tackle human trafficking, after thousands of desperate asylum seekers arrived on its shores in the past week, Reuters reported. Southeast Asian governments have so far shown little sign of a coordinated response to the boatloads of Bangladeshi migrants and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar arriving in their waters. Some 2,500 migrants have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia over the past week, while around 5,000 remain stranded at sea in rickety boats with dwindling supplies of food and water. A meeting of Malaysian and Indonesian foreign ministers scheduled for Monday was put back until Wednesday to allow the Thai foreign minister to attend, a Malaysian foreign ministry official said. Talks would focus on human trafficking and people smuggling in the region, the ministry said in a statement. --SPA 16:57 LOCAL TIME 13:57 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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