Burma has approved all pending visas for UN staff, in a sign the German agencies appeal for more aid for Burma ...
Doubts About Burma Aid Stymie German Fundraising Efforts ... regime intends to keep its promise to allow all foreign aid workers in.
More foreign relief workers from other groups are also being permitted to enter the Irrawaddy Delta, which took the brunt of last month's cyclone.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon last week urged Burma to allow humanitarian relief into the stricken country.
The UN estimates that more than two million people still need aid.
The latest developments are being interpreted as a sign that the authoritarian regime intends to keep its promise to grant access to aid workers from all countries.
Last week's offer by senior General Than Shwe to UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon to allow in "all foreign aid workers, regardless of nationality", appeared to be a breakthrough, according to the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
The ruling junta had previously insisted that it could adequately provide for the victims of Cyclone Nargis on its own.
Our correspondent adds that this is perhaps because of pride, or because of intense suspicion of any large-scale foreign presence on the part of junta.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, told the BBC in an interview on Wednesday that the cyclone crisis had helped achieve more active dialogue with the junta.
He said that the international relief operation could have positive ramifications for Burma's future democratic development.
At least 78,000 people have died as a result of the cyclone, and more than 50,000 people are still missing.
(BBC)
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