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August 14, 2009

Sen. Webb in Burma for Junta Talks
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Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia is in Burma for talks with the
military junta. Webb is expected to meet with Senior General Than Shwe
in what would be the junta leader’s highest-level contact with the US to
date. Webb’s visit comes days after the Burmese pro-democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to an additional eighteen months of house
arrest.



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