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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Myanmar junta blocks food aid shipment

Disgraceful. How hard is it to "negotiation" the delivering of food aid when your people are starving?

A French government statement said navy ship Le Mistral was waiting some 13 miles outside Myanmar’s territorial waters, hoping to go in and unload its cargo of 1,000 tons of food — enough to feed 100,000 people for 15 days. The aid also includes shelters for 15,000 people, the statement said.

“The specifics of the delivery of this aid have not yet been defined,” the statement said, adding such details “will be the subject of negotiations” with Myanmar authorities, who are yet to authorize it to dock either in the delta or in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

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