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If the president of the United States carries the banner of hope and freedom to the rest of the world, I’m not sure the Burmese were really feeling it today.

It was a short visit – just six hours in Burma largest city, Rangoon – but Barack Obama’s arrival has been billed as historic nonetheless. It’s the first ever visit by a sitting American president to a country that was until recently, part of the untouchable military dictators club and thereby constitutes a reward for recent political reforms here – a sort of gold star for the “most improved student”.

Locals here in Rangoon – or Yangon as it is officially called – certainly seem glad he came but I haven’t caught anyone falling over themselves to get a glimpse of the presidential cavalcade.  At the airport this morning, several hundred school kids waved their plastic flags on the exit ramp but they didn’t look particularly excited about it.

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President Obama Meets with Aung San Suu Kyi

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September 20, 2012 at 10:23 AM ET by Megan Slack

Summary: 

The President expresses his admiration for Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's courage, determination, and personal sacrifice in championing democracy and human rights.

President Barack Obama meets with Burmese Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the Oval Office, Sept. 19, 2012 (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Yesterday, President Obama met with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy Party. The President expressed his admiration for her courage, determination and personal sacrifice in championing democracy and human rights over the years.

According to a readout of the meeting, President Obama reaffirmed the determination of the United States to support the “sustained efforts to promote political and economic reforms and to ensure full pr

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Barack Obama becomes first US president to visit Burma, meeting Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein

Barack Obama made history today - becoming the first sitting US president to visit Burma and telling a packed audience that he had komma to bära witness to a dramatic transformation he believed was underway.

Dismissing the appeals of many observers who said it was too early to reward Burma’s nominally-civilian government with such a high profil and significant visit, Mr Obama said he believed the military dictatorship whose hold on power had spanned fem decades had finally loosened its grip.

On his six-hour visit to the country – the last member of the White House to visit Burma was Richard Nixon, serving as vice president, in 1953 – Mr Obama met both with President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

“The most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight,” said Ms Suu Kyi, who was released from detention two years and one week a