Myanmar storm aid logjam breaking?

YANGON, Myanmar, May 27 (UPI) -- Relief agencies say they are starting to get more personnel into Myanmar nearly a month after a cyclone left some 135,000 people dead or missing.

The movement will allow relief crews to get into remote areas where the United Nations estimates 1.5 million survivors have yet to receive any assistance.

"The initial indications are that international staff are able to get out and

things are looking quite positive," Richard Horsey, a spokesman for

the United Nations disaster relief office in Bangkok, told The New York Times. "But before celebrating victory, we should keep an eye on it."

Myanmar's government agreed to open the door to international relief last week after a personal appeal to the junta's leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The Times noted when Ban met with the general, he did not raise the issue of the ongoing house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her annual arrest order was renewed for another year last week.