The newly-elected President of the United States will visit Myanmar and will meet democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein.
The visit will be the historic first visit of an elected and sitting US President which will surely boost a political reform drive. The President will deepen his administration’s support for the startling reform process launched by Thein Sein.
He is expected to make a speech to civil society groups and make a stop at a cultural site in Yangon. Aside from visiting Myanmar, the US President will visit Thailand and attend the East Asia Summit in Cambodia on November 17-20, 2012.
President Barrack Obama will use his Asian trip to discuss a broad range of issue, including economic prosperity and job creation through increase trade and partnership, energy and security cooperations, human rights, shared values and other issues of regional and global concerns.
