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May 14th, 2008
Posted: 07:25 AM ET
LONDON, England (CNN) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked the United Nations secretary-general to convene an emergency summit on aid to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar. The prime minister told the House of Commons Wednesday that he had made the request of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and had asked the U.N. chief to go to the country himself. Brown said a British plane had just arrived in Myanmar with shelter supplies for 45,000 people. He said three other planeloads of aid would arrive soon, and eventually two more would arrive for a total of six. |
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