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Obama to visit Myanmar after re-election
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November 9, 2012, Friday
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Barack Obama will meet Myanmar democracy icon Aung San SuuKyi and President TheinSein on a historic first visit to the country by a sitting US president.
The White House said yesterday that Obama would also visit Thailand and attend the East Asia summit in Cambodia on the November 17-20 trip, which will mark his return to the world stage following his re-election.
The president is expected to make a speech to civil society groups and may make a stop at a cultural site in Yangon during his visit to Myanmar.
In Thailand, a US treaty ally, Obama will meet Prime Minister YingluckShinawatra and mark 180 years of diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian kingdom.
The president, who presided over a rebalancing of US diplomacy toward Asia, is also expected to hold bilateral talks with regional leaders on the sidelines of the summit in Cambodia.
He will use the Asia trip to "discuss a broad range of issues, including economic prosperity and job creation through increased trade and partnerships, energy and security cooperation, human rights, shared values and other issues of regional and global concern," the White House said in a statement.
Obama is expected to turn increasingly to foreign affairs in his second White House term, which begins in January, after devoting months this year to his re-election campaign against Republican Mitt Romney.
The White House said yesterday that Obama would also visit Thailand and attend the East Asia summit in Cambodia on the November 17-20 trip, which will mark his return to the world stage following his re-election.
The president is expected to make a speech to civil society groups and may make a stop at a cultural site in Yangon during his visit to Myanmar.
In Thailand, a US treaty ally, Obama will meet Prime Minister YingluckShinawatra and mark 180 years of diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian kingdom.
The president, who presided over a rebalancing of US diplomacy toward Asia, is also expected to hold bilateral talks with regional leaders on the sidelines of the summit in Cambodia.
He will use the Asia trip to "discuss a broad range of issues, including economic prosperity and job creation through increased trade and partnerships, energy and security cooperation, human rights, shared values and other issues of regional and global concern," the White House said in a statement.
Obama is expected to turn increasingly to foreign affairs in his second White House term, which begins in January, after devoting months this year to his re-election campaign against Republican Mitt Romney.
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