KUALA LUMPUR — 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.
The meeting pre-empts talks Thailand organised in Bangkok on May 29 for 15 countries to discuss the emergency. That meeting is still scheduled to go forward.
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.