Asia's migrant crisis meeting unlikely to yield solutions

Rohingya migrants who arrived in Indonesia last week by boat are seen through the window of an abandoned building as they wait in line for breakfast at a temporary shelter in Aceh Timur regency near Langsa in Indonesia's Aceh Province May 27, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A meeting in Bangkok on Friday about Southeast Asia's migrant crisis is unlikely to produce a binding agreement or plan of action to save thousands of people believed stranded on boats in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, participants said.

The meeting will bring together 17 countries from across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and elsewhere in Asia, along with the United States, Switzerland and international organisations like UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency.