The decision follows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement on April 4 that Washington plans to relax sanctions banning senior Myanmar officials from travelling to the US and lift restrictions on the export of US financial services to the country.
The National League for Democracy spokesman, Nyan Win, said Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein would likely discuss democratization and peace talks with the ethnic rebels in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
BANGKOK — Burma, sealed off from Western investors by a thick shell of sanctions, could be open for business as soon as this year. But even if the US Congress and White House stay on course, and finally reward the authoritarian state’s recent reforms by cracking that shell, what will investors find underneath?
Aung San Suu Kyi's party won the elections in 1990 by a landslide but the military junta dismissed the results and prolonged her house arrest for 22 years.
RANGOON — “In the past, they would scrutinize every sentence in every piece,” U Ko Ko, publisher of the Yangon Times, said of Burma's censors. “Now they change less than 10 percent.”
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