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Show DAILY A14 HERALD Sunday, May 25, 2008 Myaiunar concedes to access ahead of donor meeting ma m " m ill i.i) hi. i'l- mil aimm t l 'Coalition of Mercy," said he airplanes. believed donors would show The World Food Program which has gotten the Y ANGON, My anmar their goodwill, but added that Aid for helicopter operations they would be unlikely to honagencies geared up Saturday and other or pledges if the junta failed to to go into Myanmar's cyclone-hi-t aid organizations also will use follow through on its promises lrrawaddy delta after the for international access. this hub. country's ruling junta vowed "I dont think we have any On the first flight from the to open its doors to help ahead doubt that there will be a lot of of an international donors hub, UNICEF sent three mobile water treatment plants goodwill coming through," Sumeeting. rin said. "But again it will dethat can produce 10,000 liters After weeks of stuba to water of 3,200 pend on how we carry out this help assistance, day bornly refusing people. "It will save lives," Ban goodwill, or administer this Myanmar's ruling generals said. have told the United Nations -" goodwill, with the cooperation . i The United Nations has of Myanmarese authorities." they are now willing to allow launched an emergency appeal 'V "We expect no obstacles," workers of all nationalities to he said. for $201 million. That figure help survivors of the storm JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press The junta's apparent conceswill likely increase once disasthat left about 78,000 people sion came Friday after three Ban ter relief experts are able to dead and another 56,000 miss- U.N. Secretary-Genera- l (right meets with Cyclone Margis victims at a refugee center Thursday in the lrrawaddy Delta of Myanmar. survey the stricken lrrawaddy weeks of blocking relief for ing. Delta. The ability to assess the situcyclone survivors. "I want to be optimistic, but So far, the U.N. has received ation will be crit ical in securing in I'm million contribuThailand. about 42 $50 told to him while had the that of from about skeptical," Lionel Rosenbheading governing Bangkok, pledges percent foreign generals d Ban and the Thai prime min2.4 million people affected by tions and about $42.5 million latt, president emeritus of international aid workers will ments, and the junta's about in pledges in response to the be able to freely reach the ister inaugurated a new hub the storm had received some face was seen as a concession Refugees International ""to get more aid when 45 potenfor relief efforts, a warehouse kind of emergency assistance, needy people," a pledge the appeal, said Stephanie Bunker, said. "The devil is going to be in t he implement at ion. " tial donor nations meet Sunday only 23 percent of the 2 million junta has not publicly acknowl- at Bangkok's old international spokeswoman for the U.N. The possible breakthrough Of fice for the Coordination of in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest people living in the hardest hit edged. airport. Ban said authorities distracted attention from the Ban made the comments were planning two flights a Humanitarian Affairs. areas had been reached. city. U.N. Secretary General Ban An estimate released SatMyanmar has estimated the junta's widely criticized deciday from there into Yangon, during a trip Saturday to Chi76 economic rul before and zone U.N. Antonov said that said na's the Ilyushin using damage at about $11 sion to push ahead Saturday by earthquake Myanmar's urday billion. with a constitutional referenThe conference Sunday is dum in Yangon and hard-hi- t areas of the delta. being sponsored by the U.N. and the Association Turnout for the vote apof Southeast Asian Nations, in peared low, which was exwhich is taking the lead in orpected since many potential IV? i'ili'i: t If voters remained consumed ganizing the delivery of aid to Myanmar, one of its members. with rebuilding their lives and the government already had ASEAN Secretary General ; Surin Pitsuwan, calling it a announced the final results. ASSOC ATEC TH PRESS V. " 12 go-ahe- ' , - U.S.-base- -- mill in fighting cancer, heres one thing we can ; "Slipped, Herniated, Or Bulging Disc Pain?" side: back on your get the odds. t. 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