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Friday 07 Aug 2015 - 14:04 Makkah mean time-22-10-1436
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Kuala Lumpur, (IINA) - Asean foreign ministers discussed during their 48th ASEAN ministerial meeting in Jakarta, which was opened by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, ways to strengthen efforts towards human rights protection and enhancing them for the benefit of the peoples of member states.
The ASEAN community should ensure maximum benefits for the people by strengthening efforts towards human rights protection, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi said at the ASEAN ministerial meeting.
According to a press release from the ministry of foreign affairs received by ANTARA News, the minister supports the strengthening of the ASEAN intergovernmental commission on human rights to reinforce human rights protection in the ASEAN region.
Minister Marsudi also proposed the division of human rights in the ASEAN secretariat.
"The promotion and protection of human rights is one of the main issues that member states of ASEAN must fight for," she emphasized.
She also stated that the protection of migrant workers was an important issue in the context of promotion of human rights protection, which has direct impacts on most people in the region.
Moreover, the Indonesian government also proposed at the ASEAN ministerial meeting the issuance of a "Joint Statement of ASEAN foreign affairs ministers on the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant workers." This will provide political impetus to the settlement of legal instruments problems regarding the protection of migrant workers in the ASEAN region.
In addition, Marsudi raised several other important issues, such as the legal action taken against illegal fishing and granting ASEAN membership to Timor-Leste.
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