Burma's military government has said it is still opposed to letting foreign aid workers in to help the many victims of Cyclone Nargis.Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, of the military leadership, said Burma was grateful for the aid shipment from the United States which arrived on Monday.
But he said that so far there was no need for aid workers.
The US has said it hopes to send in two more transport aircraft carrying aid later on Tuesday.
Two lorries carrying relief supplies overland have also now arrived in Rangoon.
But aid workers complain that much of the aid delivered over the past week has not reached those who need it, because the Burmese military insists on controlling most of the distribution - despite lacking the equipment and expertise to do it well.
They describe delivering supplies in the Irrawaddy Delta with dugout canoes, and say they are badly overstretched.
'Immense frustration'
The BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says that much of the aid which has arrived in the country has sat at the airport for days.
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