{"id":14447,"date":"2012-11-19T04:11:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:11:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-19T04:11:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:11:32","slug":"Obama-lauds-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-gives-a-nod-to-Myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14447","title":{"rendered":"Obama lauds Aung San Suu Kyi, gives a nod to Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, praising the courage of fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi while also providing a symbolic nod to initial reforms in a nation once notorious for political repression.<\/B><\/p>\n

Later, Obama traveled to Cambodia for a summit of regional leaders and held what an aide called a “tense”meeting with the host country’s prime minister that emphasized the need for improving human rights there.<\/B><\/p>\n

The president’s trip, his first overseas since winning re-election this month, foreshadowed the focus his administration will place on Asia in a second term as part of a strategy to blunt Chinese influence in the region. Cambodia is an ally of China.<\/B><\/p>\n

Monday’s highlight was the several hours Obama spent in Myanmar, the formerly secretive country also known as Burma.<\/p>\n

The president met with Suu Kyi at the lakeside villa where she spent years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activism. Obama called the meeting a new chapter between the two countries.<\/B>
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\n“Here, through so many difficult years, is where she has displayed such unbreakable courage and determination,”<\/B> Obama told reporters, standing next to Suu Kyi. “It is here where she showed that human freedom and human dignity cannot be denied.”<\/B><\/p>\n

Myanmar was politically and economically isolated from the rest of the world for decades until it ended military rule last year.<\/B><\/p>\n

In a diplomatic show of support, Obama referred to the country by the government’s preferred name — Myanmar — rather than the colonial name of Burma used by Suu Kyi and democracy activists.<\/p>\n

Suu Kyi warned that Myanmar’s reform process would be difficult.<\/B><\/p>\n

“The most difficult time in any transition is when we think success is in sight, then we have to be very careful that we are not lured by a mirage of success, and that we are working toward its genuine success for our people and friendship between our two countries,”<\/B> she said.<\/p>\n

Get the full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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