Clinton says US reviewing policy toward Burma
Feb 17th, 2009
According to the Associated Press
TOKYO -President Barack Obama’s administration is reviewing its policy toward Myanmar to see if it can more effectively promote reform in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.
Clinton, on her first trip abroad as the top U.S. diplomat, said Washington “is looking at what steps we might take that might influence the current Burmese government and we’re also looking for ways that we could more effectively help the Burmese people.”
“We want to see a time when citizens of Burma and the Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi can live freely in their own country,” Clinton said at a town hall meeting at Tokyo University in response to a question from a woman who said she was from Myanmar.