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Photo Credit: AP PhotoIn this image provided by the German Relief organizations association 'Aktion Deutschland Hilft', ADH, Friday, May 9, 2008, residents clear debris in the city of Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Six days after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar's western coast, the impoverished country's needs remain enormous. Myanmar's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday, that it wants relief supplies but not foreign aid workers in the country.
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Photo Credit: AP PhotoIn this image provided by the German Relief organizations association 'Aktion Deutschland Hilft', ADH, Friday, May 9, 2008, a woman washes fish in a bowl in front of her damaged home in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Six days after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar's western coast, the impoverished country's needs remain enormous. Myanmar's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday, that it wants relief supplies but not foreign aid workers in the country.
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Photo Credit: AP PhotoIn this Burma News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, May 8, 2008, relief supplies from Bangladesh are unloaded at an airport in Yangon, Myanmar. More international relief aid from Japan, Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand, India and Singapore poured in Myanmar Wednesday for the country's storm victims, Myanmar's state radio said according to Xinhua.
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Photo Credit: AP PhotoA Myanmar resident examines houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday, May 9, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was "unprecedented" in the history of humanitarian work.
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Photo Credit: AP PhotoA small temple is seen submerged in a flooded rice field near a house destroyed by last weekend's devastating cyclone near Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The U.N.'s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has landed in Myanmar after the military regime gave clearance to send relief material to cyclone victims.
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The world body appealed to donor nations to pledge money for food, water purification tablets, emergency health kits, mosquito nets, cooking sets, plastic sheeting and water jugs.
The money would go to 10 U.N. agencies and nine non-governmental organizations.
"If we do not act now, and if we do not act fast, more lives will be lost," said John Holmes, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs.
The United States, Britain, France and other nations called on Myanmar to ensure unfettered access for aid workers, release aid shipments, speedily grant visas and waive importation fees.
"Myanmar intends to cooperate with the international community to address this great challenge," said Kyaw Tint Swe, Myanmar's U.N. ambassador.
But, he added: "It has to be orderly and systematic."
In Atlanta, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said his staff was negotiating with Myanmar to break the gridlock, although he said leaders of the junta had "regrettably" not yet made direct contact with him.
"It's moving toward the right direction," he said.
The U.N. World Food Program announced it had suspended aid shipments Friday after two planeloads of supplies were seized by government officials. WFP later reversed the decision and said the flights would resume Saturday.
That agency seeks $56 million to feed 630,000 hungry people living in badly damaged areas or temporary shelters.
Saturday's cyclone killed tens of thousands of people and left many more missing. Diplomats and aid groups have warned the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illnesses and that the country is on the brink of a medical catastrophe.