YANGON (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has left for Myanmar, calling the situation there "critical" with relief efforts reaching only a quarter of those in need.
Ban also said that Myanmar had granted permission for nine World Food Program helicopters to operate in remote areas.
und-raising talks in Yangon.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Myanmar's reclusive government has agreed to allow UN helicopters into some of the least accessible areas of the country's

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Tuesday that Myanmar's junta had granted permission for the World Food Programme

The devastation in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis could create a humanitarian crisis worse than that of the 2004 south Asian tsunami, the UN's secretary-general has said.
Ban Ki-Moon said on Tuesday that Myanmar had reached a "critical" point with international aid only reaching a minority of victims of the storm.
rence with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) on Sunday to raise money for the relief effort in Myanmar.

AP GENEVA: The United Nations will need to continue its emergency operations for the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar for the foreseeable future,

AP YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar began three days of mourning Tuesday for some 78000 cyclone victims after its ruling junta appeared to relent to foreign

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) - Myanmar has agreed to let its South Asian neighbors send medical personnel and an assessment team to the cyclone-ravaged country, more than two weeks after a storm that killed tens of thousands of people.
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