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	Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was to meet Indonesia&#39;s Retno Marsudi in the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu on Monday, a government official said.</div>
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	That would be followed by separate talks between Anifah and Thai Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn later in the week, &quot;most probably on Wednesday&quot;.</div>
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	The official declined further comment but confirmed the meetings were called in response to the migrant crisis.</div>
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	Nearly 3,000 migrants have been rescued or swum to shore in the three countries over the past week.</div>
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	Activists say thousands more are feared to be drifting at sea in rickety boats after a Thai crackdown on human-trafficking disrupted busy smuggling routes to Southeast Asia.</div>
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	The three nations have come under mounting international pressure to allow boats to land after vessels overloaded with hundreds of starving and exhausted migrants were turned away.</div>
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	The arrivals from Muslim Bangladesh are believed to be mainly economic migrants seeking to escape their country&#39;s grinding poverty, while those from Myanmar are predominantly members of that country&#39;s repressed Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority.</div>

Malaysian FM to meet Indonesian, Thai counterparts on migrants

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia said on Sunday that its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the surge in stricken boatpeople from Bangladesh and Myanmar flooding to Southeast Asia.