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US envoys hold talks with Myanmar junta

AFP, Yangon
Two top US envoys began talks with Myanmar's ruling generals yesterday and were set to meet democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as they made the highest level visit to the military-ruled nation in 14 years.
The trip by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scot Marciel is the latest move by President Barack Obhma's administration to engage Myanmar's reclusive junta.
The American officials touched down in the remote administrative capital Naypyidaw on a US Air Force plane from Bangkok In neighbouring Thailand, US embassy spokesman Richard Mei said.
"They are due to meet with senior government officials today. Tomorrow they will be in Yangon and meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition leaders," Mei told AFP.
Myanmar officials said Campbell met
Information Minister Brigadier General Kyaw Hsann and local organisations including the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association on Tuesday.
The US delegation would hold talks with Prime Minister Thein Sein on Wednesday morning but was unlikely to meet junta chief Senior General Than Shwe during the two-day trip, they said.
Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi had her house arrest extended by another 18 months in August, prompting an international outcry. She has spent most of the last two decades in detention.
Campbell is the highest ranking US official to travel to Myanmar -- formerly known as Burma -- since Madeleine Albright went as US ambassador to the United Nations in 1995 under the administration of President Bill Clinton.
"We see this visit as the start of direct engagement between the US and Myanmar government," Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League
for Democracy Party (NLD), told AFP
The spokesman said he was not expecting a "big change" from the talks, adding: "This visit is just a first stage."
The Obama administration recently shifted US policy because its longstanding approach of isolating Myanmar had failed to bear fruit, but Washington has said it would not ease sanctions without progress on democracy and human rights.
Suu Kyi will be discussed when Obama meets Southeast Asian leaders in Singapore later this month, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday, adding that Thein Sein was expected to attend.
Lee said the inaugural US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit on November 15 was a "significant step forward" in relations between Washington and Asean.
The Southeast Asian bloc favours engagement but has been accused of going soft on Myanmar's generals.