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| The UN says it is extremely disappointed at the slow progress made in securing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone in Burma. | The UN says it is extremely disappointed at the slow progress made in securing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone in Burma. |
| Humanitarian chief John Holmes told reporters that Burma's response was "nothing like as much as is needed". | Humanitarian chief John Holmes told reporters that Burma's response was "nothing like as much as is needed". |
| In addition to about 23,000 people who died in the storm and tidal surge, 1.5 million are at risk, he said. | |
| The US has been denied permission to fly aid into Burma - and one official said they were considering air drops. | |
| Some supplies have been allowed into Burma but many more tonnes of aid, and dozens of foreign staff, have not. | Some supplies have been allowed into Burma but many more tonnes of aid, and dozens of foreign staff, have not. |
| Burmese state media say 22,980 people were killed by Nargis but there are fears the figure could rise to 100,000. | |
| 'Frustration growing' | |
| At his briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Mr Holmes said progress was being made in securing easier access to the many victims, but he is clearly losing patience, says the BBC's Laura Trevelyan at UN headquarters in New York. | |
| Mr Holmes warned that the situation was "increasingly desperate". | |
| As many as 1.5 million people were severely affected, he said, and there was a "real danger that an even worse tragedy will unfold if we can't get aid in. | |
| "Frustrations are growing about access," he said. | |
| Four flights carrying supplies from the UN's World Food Programme arrived in Rangoon on Thursday, as well as an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) flight. | |
| But earlier reports that the US had been granted permission to fly in its own supplies have not been borne out. | |
| And Mr Holmes said two out of four members of a specialist UN disaster assessment team had also been denied access when they arrived in Burma. |