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The statement raised hopes for a breakthrough in the crisis in which nearly 3,000 refugees and migrants from Burma's persecuted Rohingya minority group and Bangladesh were rescued off Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

The fate of about 300 people aboard a boat that was pushed backwards and forward between Malaysia and Thai waters last week is still unknown.

Malaysia's foreign affairs minister will meet his counterparts from Indonesia and Thailand in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to discuss the migrant crisis, ahead of a regional meeting in Bangkok on 29 May. On Tuesday, the Indonesian foreign minister said her country had already "Given more than it should" to help the migrants.

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