DHAKA (Reuters) -- Thailand and Bangladesh agreed on Monday to take up with Myanmar the issue of the flow of Rohingya Muslims into Myanmar's neighbors, the Thai foreign minister said.

The Rohingya, an oppressed Muslim minority from army-ruled Myanmar, have been leaving Myanmar and heading mainly into impoverished Bangladesh since the late 1970s.
Rohingya refugees have also created problems for several other countries in the region in recent months, with reports of Thailand putting those who come by boat back to sea, and others reaching Malaysia and Indonesia and trying to work illegally.
Myanmar does not recognize the Rohingya, who speak a Bengali dialect, as an ethnic group.
“We have discussed the refugee problems extensively and have agreed to take up jointly with Myanmar for a tripartite solution,” Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told a news conference during a visit to Bangladesh.
More than 21,000 Rohingya refugees living in two UN-run camps near the southeastern resort of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh are not willing to go back, alleging persecution by the military junta ruling Myanmar.
They are the remnants of some 250,000 Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh in 1992. The rest were repatriated through UNHCR.
Muslims are a minority in Myanmar, where most of the population is Buddhist.