Foreign Ministers discuss ways to mitigate haze risk


An Indonesian worker from a private palm oil concession company extinguishes a forest fire on June 29, 2013 in the Kampar district (Riau province), on Sumatra island. Indonesia said on June 29, that fires across giant rainforests which caused Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in years had been greatly reduced and were coming under control. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa gave the assessment after briefing his counterparts from neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, the two countries most affected by the toxic smoke. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore have discussed the way forward on mitigating the risk of haze, which has affected them in the past weeks.

The discussion was done in an informal trilateral meeting initiated by Malaysia on the sidelines of the 46th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Brunei on Saturday.

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