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US Official Meets Suu Kyi in Burma

HeadlineNov 04, 2009

In Burma, a top State Department official met with the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi earlier today. It was the highest-level meeting between a US representative and Suu Kyi in fourteen years. The official, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, greeted Suu Kyi at his hotel. It was Suu Kyi’s first visit outside of a prison and the home where she’s under house arrest in years.

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