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Burma's military generals have bowed to a chorus of international pressure, agreeing today to allow the US military and UN to fly critical aid to the country's cyclone survivors.
With up to 100,000 feared dead and one million missing, Thailand said it had convinced Burma's secretive junta to accept US assistance, almost a week after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country.
The decision came as the United Nations today said disaster management experts had received permission to enter the country six days after the cyclone hit. The UN said it would also immediately release $US10 million ($10.6 million) from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).
Thailand's Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niumpradit said Rangoon had agreed to allow in US planes that have been participating in joint Thai-US military exercises.
"We have helped the Americans to talk to the Myanmar (Burma) government to allow US planes ... to fly humanitarian aid to Myanmar. They just agreed," he said.
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