The foreign ministers of France and Britain are urging Myanmar’s military leaders to let foreign aid into the country after its devastating cyclone.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband are asking Myanmar’s junta to “lift all restrictions on the distribution of aid.”

International attempts to get relief supplies and aid workers into the isolationist country are apparently still encountering problems. An estimated 1 million people have been left homeless.

Kouchner and Miliband’s appeal was printed Thursday in France’s Le Monde newspaper.