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November 20, 2012

Obama Completes Historic Visits to Burma, Cambodia 
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President Obama has met with a number of Asian leaders including Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao during a visit to Cambodia. Earlier today, Obama and
Wen met on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit, which Obama is
attending in the third and final stop of his first post-election foreign
trip. Obama's stay in Cambodia marks the first to the country by a
sitting U.S. president. He arrived after also making a historic visit to
Burma, where he urged the ruling junta to continue with political
reform.

President Obama: "The steps that he has already taken for
democratization, elections, the release of prisoners of conscience, a
commitment to work with us on human rights dialogue all can unleash the
incredible potential of this beautiful country. I've shared with him the
fact that I recognize this is just the first steps on what will be a
long journey."

 

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