
Myanmar President Thein Sein (R) talks with Hillary Clinton (L), US Secretary of State at the President's office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 01 December 2011. Clinton is the first state secretary to visit Myanmar, previously known as Burma, in 50 years. Clinton is scheduled to hold talks with President Thein Sein and other officials on 01 December, before flying to Yangon for a dinner with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel laureate who has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

Myanmar President Thein Sein (L) walks with Hillary Clinton (R), US Secretary of State at the President's office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 01 December 2011. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

Myanmar President Thein Sein (L) walks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R), at the President's office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 01 December 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Myanmar's new reform-minded President Thein Sein on 01 December, kicking off a two day fact finding mission to the former pariahstate. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

Myanmar President Thein Sein (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L), at the President's office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 01 December 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Myanmar's new reform-minded President Thein Sein on 01 December, kicking off a two day fact finding mission to the former pariahstate. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

Myanmar President Thein Sein (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L), at the President's office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 01 December 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Myanmar's new reform-minded President Thein Sein on 01 December, kicking off a two day fact finding mission to the former pariahstate. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING