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| Senior US official to Visit Next Week: Burmese Official |
| Monday, October 26, 2009 |
RANGOON — A senior US official will visit Burma next week in line with Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
The Obama administration said Wednesday that US officials plan to travel to Burma, also known as Myanmar, in the next few weeks to talk with government representatives, ethnic minority groups and the democratic opposition.
The Burmese Foreign Ministry official, who asked not to be identified by name because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said a "high-ranking US official" would visit next week as part of the new approach by Washington, which has shunned Burma in the past.
He declined to give the name of the US official.
Burma's opposition National League for Democracy party of detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said the US Embassy had informed it of an upcoming visit by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M Campbell and that he would meet with party officials.
"We welcome the visit by a senior-level official from the US and hope that he would be allowed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi," party spokesman Nyan Win said.
The Obama administration is turning away from the Bush administration's policy of shunning Burma in favor of direct, high-level talks. It has said isolating the military government has failed to move it toward democratic reforms.
During testimony Wednesday to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Campbell said US officials are planning a "fact-finding mission" to Burma to continue talks he began in September in New York with senior Burmese officials, the first such high-level contact in nearly a decade.
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"who put family second to country, who for her convictions made an unbearable choice—not to see her sons grow and not to be with her husband as he lost his life to a long and painful cancer. Suu Kyi, with an idea too big for any jail and a spirit too strong for any army, changes our view — as only real heroes can — of what we believe to be possible."BONO
