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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walking into room and being greeted by junta leader Senior General Than Shwe2. Ban and Than Shwe seated during meeting3. Ban and Than Shwe posing for photo4. Ban walking...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 23 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walking into room and being greeted by junta leader Senior General Than Shwe\u003cbr/\u003e2. Ban and Than Shwe seated during meeting\u003cbr/\u003e3. Ban and Than Shwe posing for photo\u003cbr/\u003e4. Ban walking out of room \u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 23 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He has agreed to allow all the aid workers, whoever...\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: The general agreed?)\u003cbr/\u003eNaypyitaw, Myanmar - 23 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: That seems like a big breakthrough.)\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, I think so. He has agreed to allow all the aid workers, whoever, regardless of nationalities. He has taken quite the flexible position on this matter.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Ban and Than Shwe posing for photo\u003cbr/\u003eYangon, Myanmar - 23 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e8. Ban arriving for news conference\u003cbr/\u003e9. Reporters taking seats\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General: (on mid shot)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I came here to give the people of Myanmar a message of hope, that the world is watching, and that the world is with you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General: (on close-up)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This morning I had a meeting with Senior General Than Shwe. He agreed to allow international aid workers into the affected areas, regardless of nationality. He has taken quite a flexible position on an issue that until now, has been an obstacle to organising coordinated and fully effective  international aid and assistance operations. He has also agreed that visa issues will be speeded up. The senior general also agreed that Yangon airport could be used as a logistical hub for international aid, from which it could be more quickly distributed to those in need. He further agreed that international aid could be delivered to Myanmar via civilian ships and small boats.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As I said, implementation will be the key. We will carefully watch the implementation, a process in close coordination with the Myanmar authorities and ASEAN partners, but I believe that they will keep and honour their commitments.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of Ban leaving\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 23 May 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e16. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shakes hands with officials, walks past reporters \u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of Ban walking past camera and outside\u003cbr/\u003e18. Car carrying Ban leaving\u003cbr/\u003eUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon returned to Thailand from a two-day mission in Myanmar on Friday, a promise by the junta to open its doors to international aid workers in the bag.\u003cbr/\u003eBan said that the country's most powerful figure, Senior General Than Shwe, had agreed to allow \"aid workers regardless of nationality\" into the country to help cyclone survivors.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He has agreed to allow all the aid workers, whoever, regardless of nationalities. He has taken quite the flexible position on this matter,\" Ban said after the talks in the remote capital of Naypyitaw.\u003cbr/\u003eA senior UN official present at the meeting said Than Shwe also gave the green light for foreigners to work in the hardest-hit region, the Irrawaddy delta, which has been virtually off-limits to them.\u003cbr/\u003eThe news sparked hope among relief agencies that they could soon bring food, shelter and medicine to more of the cyclone victims in the country, but they cautiously awaited practical details.\u003cbr/\u003eThan Shwe, said Ban, had also agreed to make Yangon the logistics hub of the aid operation, and let aid be delivered \"via civilian ships and small boats.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHowever the ruling junta refused to relent on letting US, French and British warships dock, which are stationed off Myanmar's coast ready\u003cbr/\u003eto help.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ships, which have been treading water almost within sight of the coast for more than a week, offer a huge potential boost to the aid effort because they can send helicopters to the hardest-to-reach spots.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Myanmar's junta is nervous about any shore landings because it fears invasion or political interference. \u003cbr/\u003eIt moved its capital from Yangon, the largest city, to Naypyitaw in the north in 2005 in part because of such fears, it is generally believed.\u003cbr/\u003eBan however described all his meeting with the junta as largely positive and said that while the UN would keep close watch on the implementation of the junta's promises, \"I believe that they will keep and honour their commitments.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBan said he thought that Prime Minister General Thein Sein, who he met on Thursday, was likely to make further announcements regarding the junta's position on the delivery of international aid at the May 25 donor conference in Yangon.\u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar's military government has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign aid and experts to reach survivors of the May 2-3 Cyclone Nargis. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile granting an increasing number of visas to foreign staffers, the regime barred all but a handful of them from the delta.\u003cbr/\u003eAt least 78-thousand people were killed and another 56-thousand are missing while some 2.5 (m) million survivors are at risk from disease, starvation and exposure to monsoon rains.\u003cbr/\u003eAid agencies have said they are preparing barges, rubber boats and other vessels to deliver aid once approval is given.\u003cbr/\u003eMore than two weeks after the storm, the U.N. 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