在缅甸扣押食物之后，联合国暂停援助飞行
由 Rachel Stevenson, 朱利安Borger, 伊恩MacKinnon 并且代办处 | 在应急电源为旋风Nargis的幸存者由军事政府之后，扣押联合国今天暂停了援助飞行向缅甸。 联合国的世界食品计划(世界粮食方案)的一位发言人说它的食品援助和设备被没收了，并且飞行不可能恢复，直到情况解决。
“我们必须关闭我们的非常小空运行动，直到我们从当局得到保证”，托尼Banbury，世界粮食方案地方主任，说。
被扣押的食品援助，共计38吨高能饼干，是喂养95,000个人的足够。
“它应该在卡车朝向对受害者。 您看了他们是in.的条件。 食物现在不坐柏油碎石地面，做好”， Banbury增加。
扣押食品援助在一个禁令的公告以后对进入缅甸的外国援助工作者的来了。
缅甸人外交部官员认为国家将接受供应从国外，但控制他们的发行。
“缅甸[缅甸]制定优先权接受安心援助和分布他们风暴击中了地区与它的特有资源”，缅甸报纸政府跑的新的光认为。
“缅甸不接受抢救和信息队的从
外国当时”。
失望在它的历史登上结束缅甸的反应到其中一个最坏的灾害。
联合国发言人说对外国工作者的制约是“史无前例的”在人道主义工作的历史上。
泰国总理， Samak Sundaravej，取消旅行遇见支配的军事会议的成员和延迟在给签证援助工作者和着陆权为安心飞行继续了。
用联合国援助装载的飞机允许昨天登陆，但它代表了什么的仅分数缅甸需要。 其他二架飞机在仰光衰弱了二天。
Sundaravej提供承担他自己的人道主义使命打破僵局。 他是与缅甸的总理， Thein Sein联系，问联合国职员允许分布安心供应。
然而，他今天说参观现在看上去徒劳，增加： “在他们今天之后说他们不会欢迎外国职员，那里是没有点我去那里”。
The authorities yesterday turned back a plane carrying specialist disaster rescuers and aid. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, is still seeking talks with the junta.
The Burmese embassy in Thailand is now closed until Tuesday, putting any hopes of a climbdown on visas on hold until next week.
Villages have been submerged in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta, and the UN now believes that more than 100,000 people have been killed.
Bodies are floating in the floodwater, and aid agencies warned that outbreaks of disease could result in the death toll increasing further.
With roads blocked, hundreds of thousands of survivors are beyond the reach of clean water, food and shelter.
Aid agencies said their expertise and experience in tackling similar disasters, such as the Asian tsunami in 2004, would help get emergency relief to the afflicted areas quickly.
Despite the disaster, the junta said it was pressing ahead with a vote on a new constitution designed to maintain its grip on power. All but the worst affected regions will be balloted tomorrow.
In a television message, citizens were urged to do their patriotic duty and vote. The message did not mention the suffering caused by the cyclone.
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Here is the perfect opportunity for the USA and coalition to use its power for the better. Obviously Burma has no oil.