– Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has regularly made sanctions against Myanmar a legislative issue since 2003, visited the country and met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, praising early reform and adding, “There is, however, as everyone knows, much left to be done.” – Syria’s Foreign Ministry “absolutely reject[ed]” any plans to [...]
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President Barack Obama met with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi at her home in Myanmar on Monday, lauding her "courage and determination" during a historic visit to the once repressive and secretive country. The first sitt... Read Post
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip outside the country in more than two decades when she visits Thailand next week to attend a regional conference, a spokesman for her party said Thursday. Suu Kyi, a... Read Post
WASHINGTON - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi warned on Tuesday that reforms in her country had cleared only the "first hurdle" and said she supported an easing of U.S. sanctions as part of a broad partnership with Washing... Read Post