Myanmar is allowing some foreign aid workers to enter remote areas hard hit by the May 3 cyclone in what relief agencies said Tuesday appeared to be the beginning of a new policy that fulfills a pledge made last week to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.

Spokesmen for the United Nations and several relief agencies said a dozen or so members of their foreign staffs had traveled through roadblocks on Monday and Tuesday that for three weeks had barred them from reaching more than a million survivors who had received no assistance.

“The Myanmar government appears to be moving toward the right direction, to implement these accords,” Mr. Ban said Tuesday. He spoke one day after returning from Myanmar, where he said he had received assurances of a new openness in a meeting on Friday with the chief of the military junta, Senior Gen. Than Shwe.

“Some international aid workers and N.G.O.’s have already gone into the regions of the Irrawaddy Delta without any problem,” he said, referring to nongovernmental organizations. “I hope, and I believe, that this marks a new spirit of cooperation between Myanmar and the international community.”

As many as 135,000 people are dead or missing after the cyclone, which swept through the Irrawaddy delta and into Myanmar’s main city, Yangon. The United Nations estimates that 1.5 million survivors have not received aid.

On Sunday, at an aid conference in Myanmar, international donors offered tens of millions of dollars in relief, but most of them insisted that foreign experts must first be allowed to travel freely through hard-hit areas.

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