Ban sees Myanmar flexibility on relief

Ban sees Myanmar flexibility on relief: "Ban sees Myanmar flexibility on relief
Thursday, May 22, 2008 22:57 [IST]

Yangon: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today that Myanmar 's junta had shown some flexibility over calls for a scaled-up international relief effort after Cyclone Nargis.

'They have shown some signs of flexibility recently,' Ban told reporters on his first day in Myanmar, where he made a three-hour helicopter tour of the Irrawaddy Delta region that was hardest hit by the May 2-3 storm."