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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar opposition leader, in the US for talks with Clinton, award from Congress (VIDEO)

The opposition leader and Hillary Clinton were set to discuss whether the US should relax its economic sanctions against Myanmar given recent reforms.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Clinton's office at the State Department, Sept. 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. Having spend most of the last two decades as a political prisoner under house arrest in her home nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, Suu Kyi was elected to parliament in 2012 and her political party, the National League for Democracy, won a majority of seats.

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