UN fails to move KL on Acehnese

UN fails to move KL on Acehnese

MALAYSIA: United Nations refugee officials said on Friday they
had failed to obtain a promise from the Malaysian government that
it would not deport more asylum-seekers from Indonesia's war-torn
Aceh province.

"We did not get the assurances that there would be a
moratorium on deportations," Erika Feller, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) director of international
protection, told a news conference

She lead a four-member delegation in talks with Foreign
Minister Syed Hamid Albar and deputy Home Minister Zainal Abidin
Zin on Friday.

The delegation, which flew in from Geneva on Wednesday, was
returning home on Friday.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers last week
voiced concern over Malaysia's plans to expel some 250 Aceh
asylum seekers, including women and children, who were arrested
last month as they approached the UNHCR offices in Kuala Lumpur.
--AFP