International Relief conference opens for Myanmar’s cyclone victims

By SPA,

Yangon, Myanmar : An international conference to pledge funds for survivors of Myanmar’s cyclone has convened, the Associated Press reported.

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Some 50 nations along with aid agencies were meeting Sunday in Yangon, the country’s largest city. They will pledge funds to help some 2.4 million cyclone victims ward off starvation, disease and exposure to monsoon rains.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was attending the meeting, has obtained promises from the ruling junta to allow foreign aid and relief workers to enter the most devastated areas of the country.

Foreign aid workers had been banned from the hardest-hit Irrawaddy river delta.