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Obama’s historic visit to Burma President Obama has made history Monday by becoming the first U.S. president to visit the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation.
Nov. 19, 2012
Students hold U.S. and Burma flags to welcome President Obama at Rangoon International Airport in Rangoon, Burma.
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Burmese girls wait to greet President Obama as he arrives at Rangoon International Airport during his historic visit to the country.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi sit together before President Obama speaks at Rangoon University. The school has an illustrious history, having produced famous alumni including Aung San, the father of Suu Kyi and a renowned general who led Burma to independence from British colonial rule. But the university has fallen into disrepair, and officials hope Obama’s visit will boost its sagging fortunes.
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President Obama acknowledges the crowd before speaking at Rangoon University’s Convocation Hall.
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President Obama speaks at Rangoon University. “I came here because of America’s belief in human dignity,” the president told hundreds of students in the lecture hall, as Clinton, Suu Kyi and U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell sat in the front row. “Over the last several decades, our two countries became strangers. But today, I can tell you that we always remained hopeful about you — the people of this country.”
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A policeman stands guard at People's Park in Rangoon on the eve of the arrival of President Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Southeast Asian nation.
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Two children look at a wall painting created by graffiti artists to welcome President Obama on a street in Rangoon. Obama will visit Burma, renamed Myanmar by its ruling military leaders, on Monday, a first for a sitting U.S. president. White House officials on Nov. 15 said he will use his visit "to lock down progress and to push on areas where progress is urgently needed" — most notably freeing political prisoners and ending ethnic tensions in the western state of Rakhine and the northern state of Kachin. Obama's stop, scheduled to last about six hours, is the centerpiece of his first foreign tour since winning reelection.
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Workers paint the fence of Rangoon University, where Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech. Word of Obama’s historic visit has spread quickly around Rangoon, which is readying itself with legions of workers painting fences and curbs, pulling weeds and scraping grime off old buildings.
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T-shirts printed with pictures of Obama and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi are displayed at a shop in downtown Rangoon. The government has said it "warmly welcomes" Obama this month, expressing hope his trip will bolster the nation's political reform drive.
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A Burmese police officer secures the front entrance of Rangoon University's Convocation Hall, where President Obama is anticipated to deliver a lecture during his historic visit to Rangoon. Burma's government has said it "warmly welcomes" the historic visit of the president later this month, expressing hope his trip will bolster the nation's political reform drive.
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Workers set up the Rangoon University's Convocation Hall, where Obama is anticipated to deliver a lecture on his historic visit to the Southeast Asian nation.
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A man reads a newspaper in front of a shop where shirts with pictures of Obama are on sale in Rangoon.
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A member of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party shows a calendar printed with Obama’s meeting with Suu Kyi at a shop in Rangoon. During his six hours in Burma, Obama is scheduled to meet separately with President Thein Sein and Suu Kyi, whose release in 2010 following 15 years under house arrest launched her nation’s opening to the West. She has since become a member of parliament.
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