Following a meeting between the foreign ministers of Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia earlier today, the Malaysian and Indonesian governments have agreed to provide temporary shelter to the 7,000 Myanmar nationals stranded in the ocean, who are now the focus of an internationally-covered humanitarian crisis.
Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told Astro Awani that both Putrajaya and Jakarta have agreed to provide the boatpeople shelter on their respective sovereign soil for up to a year.
The agreement was reached following a meeting on the issue of regional human trfficking at 9am today between Anifah, Thailand’s deputy prime minister general Tanasak Patimapragorn and Indonesia’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi.
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