Hillary Clinton stay at the Chatrium Hotel in Kandawgyi Garden in Rangoon . She will meet with Burmese President Thein Sein, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and political and social groups. Her stay will also include a visit to Shwedagon Pagoda..Hillary Clinton, Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner arrived in Rangoon on Wednesday on a special state department plane. They were welcomed by Burmese Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Myo Myint.
Clinton travel to Naypyitaw for the lunch meet, hosted in Burmese President Thein Sein’s home in Naypyitaw on Thursday. Clinton to meet with Burmese President Thein Sein. She will also meet with the two Burmese speakers of Parliament, Thura Shwe Mann and Khin Aung Myint.Earlier on Thursday, Clinton will be in Naypyitaw to meet separately with Burmese President Thein Sein, Burmese Foreign Affairs Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, and the speakers of Parliament and the Upper House.
Later on Thursday, she will return to Rangoon and meet with Aung San Suu Kyi at her home on Friday, at 9 a.m. Fifty journalists will be allowed to cover the meeting..
U.S. Embassy officials, military and civilian intelligence officers and the pagoda’s trustees have made extra security measures around the jewel-bedecked, golden pagoda. The religious site will offer her greatest public exposure during the visit.Former Burmese ambassador to China and a prominent politician, Thakhin Chan Tun, said the U.S. wants to moderate China’s influence, and it’s trying to establish better relations with Burma under the new Burmese government, which has taken preliminary steps tow
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