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A CSIS Event on "The Humanitarian Crisis in Burma" was quoted by the Associated Press, "U.S. Official: One Shipment to be Allowed into Myanmar."
May 9, 2008

Associated Programs:

International Security Program
The CSIS Southeast Asia Initiative

Related Research Focus:

Asia

Excerpt:

YANGON, Myanmar  --  The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday.

"This is a very vulnerable population, and a shock of this magnitude is going to take people right off the cliff," Luu told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign affairs think tank in Washington.

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