ASEAN meet on Myanmar aid set for May 19
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand confirmed on Monday foreign ministers from 10 Southeast Asian nations would meet in Singapore next Monday to discuss ways to help cyclone-stricken Myanmar. Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said the ministers would "discuss ways and means to help Myanmar at this one-day meeting" in Singapore, the current chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The meeting comes after Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo wrote to his Myanmar counterpart Nyan Win last Friday, a Singapore Foreign Ministry statement.
As many as 100,000 people are feared to have died in the cyclone that hit Myanmar eight days ago.
The U.N. humanitarian agency said in a new assessment that between 1.2 million and 1.9 million people were struggling to survive in the aftermath of the storm.
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