Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul met with his Burmese counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin on Wednesday to discuss the issue of Rohingya Muslim refugees, Thailand’s The Nation reports. Long a persecuted minority in Burma, some 1,700 Rohingya refugees remain in a Thai detention center after they arrived illegally by boat from the Burma-Bangladesh border. “We have already taken care of [the refugees] for six months and are seeking new ways to handle them [and protect their] humanitarian and human rights,” Surapong was quoted as saying. Among other possibilities, the two ministers discussed moving the refugees to less crowded facilities in Thailand.
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