French supplies for Burma unload in Phuket

French Ambassador to Thailand, Laurant Billie, told The Nation that an agreement has been reach with the Burmese military government that Phuket would be the logistic points for French supplies heading for the victims.

Burmese junta has refused foreign naval carriers or air force cargo plane from entering its territory of airspace.

France's Mistral had been floating for two weeks on the Indian Ocean water before heading to Phuket to reload.

The cargo will be kept in a warehouse until a commercial vessel can carry the aid to Myanmar, Billie said.

The French military said on Monday that the supplies would be given to the UN's World Food Programme, which would then distribute it to the cyclone victims in worse hit areas.

Mistral was reported to have been equipped with three helicopters and carries enough food to sustain 100,000 people for two weeks. The ship also has tents and tarpaulin sheets to provide shelter to 60,000 homeless people,

 Cyclone Nargis left 133,000 dead or missing when it struck Myanmar on May 2-3.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he found it "deeply lamentable" that the regime had prevented delivery of the humanitarian aid, which arrived off the Burmese coast 10 days ago.