Myanmar: Obama to Lift Myanmar Sanctions, Including Those on Dirty Jade, Sooner than Human Rights Organizations Wanted

Sep 14, 2016 | Benjamin Soloway, Foreign Policy
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After meeting Wednesday with Myanmar’s de facto leader and fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S. President Barack Obama made an announcement that few would have expected when he took office in 2008: The United States would roll back economic sanctions and restore trade benefits to the Southeast Asian nation amid its democratic transition.