The UN’s World Food Programme will stop its relief flights to Burma next month, leaving aid organizations to find their own means of ferrying supplies into the country.
The United States blasted the Burmese junta's oft-repeated promise to democratize as a "kind of mockery", while Asia-Pacific countries urged the generals to take bolder steps to meet international demands.
What we need to bring is hand-to-hand, heart-to-heart help, not donor conferences with all their bowing and scraping. In the meantime, people are dying. — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner