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Fri, 07/13/2012 - 18:59
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Thailand asks UNHCR to reduce number of Myanmar refugees

BANGKOK, July 13 (TNA) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help reduce the number of Myanmar refugees in Thailand. When receiving the visiting UNHCR, Antonio Guterres, at Bangkok's Government House Friday morning before her departure for a one-day trip to neighbouring Cambodia, Yingluck asked the UNHCR to support Thailand in taking care of refugees at nine Thai refugee camps located near the border, especially children and pregnant women. Yingluck also asked that the UNHCR help reduce the number of Myanmar refugees in Thailand, as over 140,000 of them have sheltered at all the Thai refugee camps. The prime minister insisted that the Thai government will keep supporting the UNHCR’s operations to solve the problem properly, including the departure of the refugees to third-party countries or their return to Myanmar when the situation in their home country is promising. The visiting UNHCR, meanwhile, expressed his gratitude for Thailand’s consistent humanitarian assistance for refugees and stateless people from several countries and for the Kingdom's constructive roles in discussions and negotiations. The UNHCR then invited the Thai prime minister to visit his office in Geneva. (TNA)

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