David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former Foreign Secretary of the UK, will be at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) on 19 March 2014 at 10:30 am to give impressions of his recent trip to the Thailand-Myanmar border, visiting IRC's work in local communities and temporary shelters where the IRC has been providing services to refugees and other displaced people from Myanmar for nearly three decades.

Miliband's visit comes at a time when the refugee situation in Thailand is in flux. Refugees who live in temporary shelters in Thailand are closely monitoring changes and political reforms taking place in Myanmar, including ceasefire negotiations between the government and non-state ethnic armed groups.

Under what circumstances will refugees from Myanmar be able to return home? How have funding reductions on the Thailand-Myanmar border affected services for refugees? What will happen to the estimated two million migrants from Myanmar temporarily residing in Thailand? What can ASEAN do to improve the situation of refugees in the region?
David Miliband and Christine Petrie, Thailand Country Director for the IRC, will be on hand to discuss these and IRC's important work globally.

For more information, please contact Christine Petrie at +66.81.733.4610 or email: Christine.Petrie@rescue.org.

Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand
Penthouse, Maneeya Center Building
518/5 Ploenchit Road (connected to the BTS Skytrain Chitlom station)
Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02-652-0580
E-mail:  info@fccthai.com
Web Site:  http://www.fccthai.com