Burma wants supplies but not foreign aid workers, its foreign ministry says, hours after the UN chief urged military leaders to prioritise relief work. 

Burma is 'making strenuous efforts' to get aid to affected areas by itself and was not ready for foreign teams, a statement in a state daily says. 

UN officials have expressed mounting frustration over Burma's failure to accept international help. 

Some aid has made it in, but experts stress that it is nothing like enough. 

The UN says that up to 1.5 million people may have been affected by Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the Irrawaddy Delta region on Saturday. Burmese state media say 22,980 people were killed, but there are fears the figure could rise to 100,000. 

Burma Shuns Foreign Aid Workers