Burma will accept US cyclone aid

Finally! Thank heaven for that. How many people died waiting for the bureaucrats to see sense?


BURMA will accept emergency aid from the United States, state television said today, a week after a devastating cyclone, but did not specify how it would be delivered or distributed.And the World Food Programme (WFP) will send two relief flights to the devastated nation on Saturday, reversing a decision just hours earlier that suspended flights due to "unacceptable restrictions" by the government.

The suspension of UN airlifts came after Burma's ruling military junta seized relief aid as it arrived in the country.The WPF will send flights tomorrow "as planned", WFP director of public policy and communications Nancy Roman said.

She said discussions would continue with the government of Burma "on the distribution of the food that was flown in today, and not released to WFP''.Enough high-energy biscuits to feed 21,000 people, which were airlifted on Thursday, have been delivered over the last 24 hours to some of the worst hit areas.

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