U.S. President Barack Obama urged the President of Myanmar on Monday to stop the violence against the Muslim minority, but praised the economic and political reforms in original untouchables emerging countries as a U.S. ally in the backyard.
White House in 47 years during the first visit by the leaders of the Southeast Asian countries, Obama called for an end to the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State in western Myanmar.
Myanmar reformist President Thein Sein, Thein Sein vowed to resolve the ethnic conflict, and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
, "Obama said:" I share the President Sheng community deeply concerned about the violence has been directed at the displacement of people within the Muslim community in Myanmar, violence against them must be stopped.
At least 192 people were killed last year, in Rakhine and Rohingya Muslims, deprived of citizenship Myanmar Buddhists violent clashes between. Most of the victims and the homeless in the attack of the 14 million people are Muslims.
Myanmar Government to relieve depression, long-awaited ethnic tensions boil - a dynamic, similar to what happened when multi-ethnic Yugoslavia after fracture, down communism in the 1990s.
Thein Sein called on Myanmar to attempt the difficult reforms, the United States' assistance and understanding.
Obama said, The Myanmar leaders assured him that he was going to release political prisoners and political reforms already begun transforming the country and end its estrangement from the Western institutionalized.
Human rights organizations and some U.S. lawmakers worried about Obama's too fast, because the relationship dramatic breakthrough in 2011, half a century of military rule in Myanmar forging.
U.S. officials believe the, Myanmar - freeing democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as hundreds of political prisoners, killing review, the legalization of trade unions and protests - reform and change and worth supporting Obama, who confirmed the end of the West and Myanmar's pariah status landmark visit in November last year.
Allow anything to do with this transformation is the path of the leadership of President Sheng down the political and economic reforms in Myanmar, "Obama said in the White House Oval Office.
Even if Obama's Burma policy to support the strategic objectives of the United States, sandwiched between Burma, China and India, its isolation from the West criticism in Congress.
Long the United States and Myanmar estranged relations with the U.S., grouped with the 10 ASEAN countries in Southeast Asia, it seems Washington as a counterbalance the more confident China dragged down in recent years.
"The biggest international support"
In a speech in the White House after the meeting, Thein Sein described efforts to develop the poorest economies in Southeast Asia, and the repair of dilapidated institutions, accustomed to undo decades of authoritarian rule, and the establishment of a new, inclusive national identity from dozens of ethnic groups, including a couple of decades has been in a state of war.
"To achieve all this, we need international support, including from the United States, training and education, sharing knowledge, trade and investment, and to encourage others to do the same," he told the audience at the University of Washington.
He referred to the killing of Muslims, and said that his government "must ensure that not only inter-communal violence brought to a halt, but all of the perpetrators to justice."
Thein Sein Thein Sein, a retired general, was brought to the U.S. Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals visa blacklist last year, to facilitate participation.
Slight, soft-spoken leader is a close confidante of former military ruler Than Shwe, who ran Myanmar for 19 years, saw a period of large-scale imprisonment of opponents, knocking out the pro-democracy demonstrators and ethnic minority areas The widespread abuse.
From Burma to Myanmar by the country's military rulers in the late 1980s, successive U.S. administrations have refused to acknowledge the change of name of the country.
The United States for many years, specifically to the 60 million Burmese people, in order to avoid the legitimacy of the military government.
However, in a nod to political reform, the White House acknowledged the employer name Myanmar is now more frequently than ever before.
, "White House spokesman Jay Carney said:" We have taken measures to expand our government, easing some sanctions in appropriate settings as a courtesy, and more frequent use of the name of Myanmar.
A new measure in the United States to support the reform, the United States and Myanmar on Tuesday signed a trade and investment, promote trade, labor standards and Investment Framework Agreement, the United States Trade Representative said.
U.S. business leaders to support the lifting of sanctions, more rapid access to an untapped consumer market in a country rich in oil, natural gas, minerals and timber. Europe, Japan and elsewhere in Asia with little or no sanctions against Myanmar.
"The task at hand ... to remove the remaining U.S. economic sanctions on Burma, to extend duty-free treatment in the United States is imported from Myanmar, Bart said:" Mr Fisher, Myanmar-US Trade Commission.
 
 



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