U.S. To Exchange Ambassadors With Myanmar

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States will exchange ambassadors with Myanmar in response to its freeing political prisoners and other reforms.
Clinton announced the move Friday after Myanmar’s President Thein Sein issued a pardon and freed hundreds of detainees including some of its most famous political inmates.
In a statement, President Obama described the move as “a substantial step forward for democratic reform.”
It comes in the aftermath of Obama’s

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