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UN food agency suspends flights to Myanmar
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 05 - 2008


The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
on Friday suspended relief flights to Myanmar after 38 tons of aid
were impounded by authorities in the cyclone-struck Asian country, according to dpa.
"We are in discussions with the government in Myanmar and we hope
to find a resolution soon," WFP Director of Communications, Brenda
Barton, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"It's possible that it is only a customs-related problem," she
said on the decision to impound the aid.
Before Friday's decision, the Rome-based WFP had planned to send a
further eight flights carrying aid to Myanmar, she said
The UN aid efforts have also been hampered by difficulties in
obtaining visa's from Myanmar's military government.
The military regime has been condemned for failing to waive visa
restrictions for humanitarian workers in the wake of the devastating
storm.
The junta has appealed for international material aid but not
extended that to personnel.
More than 22,000 people have been killed and 41,000 are missing
with more than a million in urgent need of assistance since Cyclone
Nargis struck on Saturday.
WFP spokesman Paul Risley had earlier said food assistance was
held up in a warehouse and was not put onto lorries to take them to
the people who needed assistance.
"It is sitting in a warehouse, it is not in trucks heading to
Irrawaddy Delta where it is critically needed," Risley told the BBC,
adding that the WFB now had no other choice than to stop further aid
flights.
Richard Horsey, spokesman for OCHA, the group coordinating UN aid
efforts in Myanmar, also warned about a stoppage of aid deliveries.
"If it's not clear that UN agencies will be smoothly cleared
through customs then we won't let the flights depart, since that
would imply that the goods aren't going to delivered to the UN or
might start to pile up at the airport," he told Deutsche Presse-
Agentur dpa in Bangkok.


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