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VIDEO: UN chief to visit Myanmar
18 May 2008 18:57:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 18 - U.N chief Ban Ki-Moon will travel to the former Burma later this week to discuss the troubled cyclone aid operation.

The U.N.'s top humanitarian envoy is already in the former Burma to press the military junta to do more the country's cyclone victims. International pressure has been intensifying on Myanmar's reclusive generals to accept outside help after one of the worst storms to hit the region devastated parts of the country more than two weeks ago. The U.N. estimates that relief has reached barely a quarter of the two and-a-half million people left destitute by the storm. The charity, Save the Children, is warning that tens of thousands of children could die within weeks if food doesn't get to them soon.

Helen Long reports.

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