Originally published on the CGS blog on November 29, 2011.
Citizens for Global Solutions, along with 11 other non-governmental organizations, sent a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton asking her to push for strong democratic reforms ahead of her historic visit to Burma on Thursday.
Before planning a trip of a high-level government official to Burma, the U.S. required that President Thein Sein meet with political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, the government release political prisoners, and allow former political prisoners to participate in the electoral process. This will be the first visit of a U.S. secretary of state to the country in 50 years.
Don Kraus, CEO of Citizens for Global Solutions, said,
“Secretary Clinton’s trip is an opportunity for the United States to use the Burmese government’s desire for warmer relations as a bargaining chip to strongly push for effective and long-lasting democratic reforms.”
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