UK pledges £5m for Burma relief effort
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Britain today pledged an immediate £5m to help the relief effort in Burma and warned the ruling military junta to allow aid agencies proper access to the country.
Douglas Alexander, the secretary of state for international development, said a team of specialists from the Department for International Development (DfID) would also be deployed.
"By any measure, we are talking about an extremely serious humanitarian situation here," he told the BBC's World at One programme.
"But there is another key issue, which is whether we are able to secure the level of access for the international humanitarian effort that is required.
"That's why … we are urging the government of Burma to allow the international community access both for assessment purposes in the first instance and then to provide the relief - the water, the food, the shelter - that's so desperately required by the people affected."
Douglas Alexander, the secretary of state for international development, said a team of specialists from the Department for International Development (DfID) would also be deployed.
"By any measure, we are talking about an extremely serious humanitarian situation here," he told the BBC's World at One programme.
"But there is another key issue, which is whether we are able to secure the level of access for the international humanitarian effort that is required.
"That's why … we are urging the government of Burma to allow the international community access both for assessment purposes in the first instance and then to provide the relief - the water, the food, the shelter - that's so desperately required by the people affected."
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