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Thai PM to fly to Myanmar to press aid issue
09 May 2008 03:48:59 GMT
Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, May 9 (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Friday he will fly to cyclone-stricken Myanmar this weekend after British and American envoys urged him to ask the ruling generals to open the door to Western aid. "I have already contacted them. I will see them on Sunday," Samak told reporters after meeting British Ambassador Quinton Quayle in the Thai capital. (Reporting by Pracha Hariraksapitak; Writing by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Darren Schuettler and John Chalmers)

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Children play at a village hit by Cyclone Nargis, outside Yangon May 18, 2008. Aid was trickling in on Sunday to an estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis ...



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