SITUATION OVERVIEW: 1. Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008, making landfall in the Ayeyarwady Division and hitting the former capital, Yangon. 37 townships were significantly affected by the cyclone. Current estimates suggest that 2.4 million people were affected. 1.3 million people are estimated to have been reached so far by International NGOs, the Red Cross and the UN. Official figures put the number of dead or missing at more than 130,000.... 2. A Tripartite Core Group (TCG), consisting of high-level representatives of the Government of Myanmar, ASEAN and the UN, was established at a donor conference in Yangon on 25 May to oversee the coordination of relief assistance. Following the meeting, the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) was initiated to produce a common assessment report that covers humanitarian needs (Village Tract Assessment/VTA) and damage components (Damage and Loss Assessment/DaLA) with support from the Government of Myanmar, ASEAN member states and the United Nations. Some 250 members of the PONJA team completed data collection in 30 affected townships across Yangon and the Ayeyarwady Delta on 20 June. The next stages of data entry and early analysis are continuing. A progress report will be presented at the ASEAN roundtable meeting in Yangon on 24 June, while the final report is planned for release on 18 July.... 3. The new Government guidelines for international organizations providing assistance in cycloneaffected areas were introduced on 10 June. On Friday 20 June, a decision was made in the TCGmeeting to revert to the procedures in effect before 10 June, where all requests for visas for the Nargis relief response, from UN agencies and NGOs, will be handled by the TCG and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Requests for travel authorizations from all UN agencies and NGOs will again be handled by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. During the weekend, all backlogs of visa requests and travel authorization requests were processed and granted, with a few exceptions that are still being worked on. As of 19 June, more than 230 visas have been granted to the UN international staff for the response to Cyclone Nargis, and more than 200 operational UN staff have travelled to the affected areas.