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VIDEO: Myanmar grants foreign aid access
24 May 2008 08:51:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 23 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Myanmar's leaders have agreed that foreign aid workers of any nationality will be allowed to enter Myanmar to help.

The breakthrough came after Ban Ki Moon met the head of Myamnar's military junta Than Shwe who agreed to allow assistance to cyclone victims from aid workers entering the country "regardless of nationality".

The move comes after intense international frustration as aid agencies could not get permission to help those suffering following the devastating cyclone which hit Myanmar leaving 2.4 million people destitute three weeks ago.

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China's Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shake hands as they visit the earthquake-hit Yingxiu town of Wenchuan county, Sichuan Province May 24, 2008. Ban arrived in quake-hit ...



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