Military dictatorship
According to [[Thai Rath|"Thai Rath" Newspaper of Thailand]] on 8 May 2008, in the afternoon (Bangkok time) of 7 May 2008, the Burmese [[Military dictatorship|junta]] permitted Italian flights containing relief supplies from the United Nations, and twenty-five tonnes of consumable goods, to land in Myanmar. However, many nations and organisations hoped to deliver assistance and relief to Myanmar without delay; most of their officials, supplies and stores were waiting in Thailand and at the Yangon airport, as the Burmese junta declined to issue [[Visa (document)|visas]] for many of those individuals. These political tensions raised the concern that some food and medical supplies might become unusable, even before the Burmese junta officially accepted the international relief effort.