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Six UNICEF staffers arrived in Myanmar on Monday after being granted access to enter areas hardest hit by the cyclone in a sign the nation's secretive military junta may be keeping its promise.

The team will assist five local workers in assessing needs in the devastated Irrawaddy Delta. They are expected to remain in the region for a week and map out the heavily-affected areas that have been inaccessible to aid organizations until now.

The decision "is seen as a positive step forward and a kind of openness that the (U.N.) Secretary General has been pushing for in the past few days," UNICEF Emergency Communication Officer Mike Bociurkiw told CNN. Read full article »

CNN's Saeed Ahmed and David Ariosto contributed to this report

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