Bangkok, May 20 Kyodo - Myanmar [Burma]'s junta leader Sr. Gen. Than Shwe will meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to discuss the post-cyclone relief effort when Ban visits the country from Thursday, a senior UN official said Tuesday.
John Holmes, undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, told a press conference after meeting with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein that Ban would meet the country's head of state in the administrative capital Naypyitaw.
ior government officials, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said in New York on Monday.

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.

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank is supporting efforts by Southeast Asian nations to coordinate international aid for cyclone-hit Myanmar and is ready to deploy teams to do damage assessments, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Sarah Cliffe, director of World Bank operations for East Asia and the Pacific, told Reuters the immediate focus of the international community was to get humanitarian supplies to victims of Cyclone Nargis that struck two weeks ago, leaving nearly 134,000 people dead or missing.
comprehensive, longer-term assessment.

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

By SETH MYDANS and ALAN COWELL BANGKOK — Myanmar began three days of national mourning for cyclone victims Tuesday, one day after agreeing to let its

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 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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