Dhaka: Foreign ministers of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will sit for an emergency meeting in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the migrant crisis currently erupted in South Asians countries, reports British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Thousands of Bangladeshis as well as Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar have spent weeks at sea in poor conditions with little food and water.

But none of the countries meeting in Malaysia is prepared to take them in.

Meanwhile, another 350 migrants were rescued by local people off Indonesia.

‘They were suffering dehydration, they are weak and starving,’ says an Associated Press report.

Local reports said at least 500 people had been spotted in the waters off Aceh in total.

BBC news quotes Indonesia's foreign minister saying, ‘not a problem of one or two countries’.

‘It happens in other places as well, it is actually an international issue,’ said Retno Marsudi, the Indonesian foreign minister.

She urged more co-operations with the United Nations and other international organisations to resettle the thousands of migrants who have made it to shore by swimming or when they were rescued from sinking boats.

The BBC report says Myanmar is under pressure to do more to stop the migrants leaving in the first place, but is not attending the talks and denies it is to blame.

But the AFP news agency quoted a foreign ministry statement on Thursday as saying it was ‘ready to provide humanitarian assistance to anyone who suffered in the sea.’

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said a ‘comprehensive regional response’ is needed and has called on the three countries to launch search and rescue operations and put in place procedures for assessing any refugee claims.

It has expressed concern that boats are being pushed away from the countries' coasts, and has offered to send Malaysia medical and other aid, as well as help with processing the migrants, reports BBC news.

Rights groups say migrants feel they have ‘no choice’ but to leave, paying people-smugglers to help them. The UN estimates more than 120,000 Rohingyas have fled in the past three years.

Also on board are economic migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, seeking a better life.

Traffickers usually take the migrants by sea to Thailand then overland to Malaysia, often holding them hostage until their relatives pay ransoms.