U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said via Twitter that she was horrified by the bombing of the camp.
The U.N. humanitarian office held emergency meetings in Yangon and Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, over the weekend.
The U.N. humanitarian affairs office says the number of refugees is expected to double next year to 1.1 million.
"There is no time to waste, " said Valerie Amos, the U.N. humanitarian chief.
Members of the U.N. humanitarian affairs office have deployed to Tai to coordinate relief efforts there with local authorities.
The secretary-general said he will meet with the heads of all U.N. humanitarian agencies next week in Geneva to develop plans to better deal with the Balkan refugee crisis.
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Eric Mouillefarine is the top U.N. humanitarian official here.
"So far, only a small percentage of the funding for 2013 has been received, limiting the ability of U.N. agencies and their humanitarian partners to reach people who desperately need help, " the U.N. office said this month.
Russia still seethes over the way it was "hoodwinked" last year into agreeing at the U.N. on humanitarian intervention in Libya, only to see NATO's "Operation Unified Protector" morph into regime change.
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Mr. JAN EGELAND (Undersecretary General, Humanitarian Affairs, U.N.): We as humanitarians are now resigning to the fact that we will have to hang in there by our fingernails still for months to come before there might be a stronger security force.
Besides the U.N. peacekeepers, humanitarian groups reported eight civilians died in violence, said Dourlot.
W. Bush responded by joining with the U.N. to lead a humanitarian mission to Somalia.
The Lebanese government is negotiating with the U.N. to secure a humanitarian corridors for the delivery of supplies to the civilian population.
The extension is not a rollover of the program, which is already scheduled to end June 3, but allows the U.N. to select priority humanitarian goods from the programs' contracts until the program ends.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair favors using the U.N. to help with humanitarian and reconstruction projects, partly as a way to bring the U.S. and Europe together again after the damaging breach at the Security Council last month.
There will, of course, be room for U.N. organizations to help with humanitarian relief, medical assistance, food distribution, etc.
Some displaced families also expressed concerns about schooling for their children, reported the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), the U.N. news agency focusing on humanitarian issues.
At least two U.N. planes carrying much-needed humanitarian supplies landed in Myanmar on Thursday.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh backed Blair's remarks, pointing to evidence that Saddam was diverting money from the U.N. food-for-oil humanitarian program to buy new weapons.
Although George Bush and Tony Blair have talked repeatedly of making it a "vital" one, EU nations suspect the U.S. in particular of wanting to palm off the U.N. with little more than a humanitarian aid function.
Another 35 families crossed the Ivory Coast's southwest border into U.N. refugee camps in Liberia, and humanitarian groups said hundreds of others had been pushed south by the violence, according to Dourlot.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
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This can be accomplished by expanding independent pledges of humanitarian aid, enhancing participation in the existing U.N. relief and security apparatus, increasing high-level diplomatic contacts and implementing a comprehensive economic stimulation package which includes low-cost loans, grants, infrastructure development and corporate partnerships.
Other U.N. agencies have expressed strong concern about the humanitarian situation for the displaced in places like Rakhine state and central Myanmar.
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"These agencies are vital implementation partners for the United Nations and account for at least half of the humanitarian capacity in Darfur, " said Catherine Bragg, U.N.
The U.N. said last week that "numerous obstacles" prevent humanitarian aid from reaching all those in need.
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McCurry said the goal of the multinational task force is two-fold: to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid by civilian relief organizations and repatriation of refugees by the U.N.
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