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Efforts to get aid past Burma junta

Updated on 09 May 2008

By Jonathan Miller

The UN appeals to Burma's military junta to allow aid and aid workers into the country in the wake of cyclone Nargis.

Planes grounded, disaster teams turned back, supplies impounded. But as the United Nations appealed for more than £50m in emergency aid for Burma, the UN urged the military junta to let foreign aid workers in "without hindrance".

A US military aircraft filled with supplies has now been approved to land on Monday. And the World Food Programme is resuming flights to Burma tomorrow.

The Burmese authorities insist they want to distribute aid themselves. But so far barely a trickle has reached those in desperate need.

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