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Thursday 21 May 2015 - 11:58 Makkah mean time-3-8-1436
 Kuala Lumpur, (IINA) - Indonesia and Malaysia will stop turning back boats and have agreed to offer temporary shelter to 7,000 immigrants stranded in the Andaman Sea, UPI reported.
"The towing and the shooing away of boats is not going to happen," Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said at a joint press conference with Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Wednesday. "Indonesia and Malaysia agreed to continue providing humanitarian assistance to those 7,000 irregular migrants still at sea."
Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia held talks in Kuala Lumpur about the immigrant situation.
"We also agreed to offer them temporary shelter provided that the resettlement and repatriation process will be done in one year by the international community," Anifah added.
Shelter will only be available for those people currently on the seas. Thailand will not be providing shelter but will continue offering humanitarian assistance.
People aboard told BBC News that they were abandoned by their smugglers, and that they were running out of food and water and 10 people aboard already died.
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