UN to resume food aid flights to Myanmar as negotiations with junta continue
May 9, 2008GENEVA - The United Nations says it will resume food aid flights to Myanmar on Saturday.
The announcement by Nancy Roman, the World Food Program's chief spokeswoman, came Friday just hours after the UN agency said it was halting deliveries after Myanmar's military government seized material already on the ground.
Roman says deliveries will continue while the WFP negotiates over the fate of the confiscated aid.
The material seized by Myanmar authorities included two planeloads of high-energy biscuits earmarked for hungry survivors of last weekend's devastating cyclone.
Meanwhile, the UN forecasts more bad weather for Myanmar, with heavy rains expected next week.
