US Ambassador Scot Marciel has said his country remains committed to political and economic reform in Myanmar during his first official public address on Tuesday morning, while treading gingerly around a controversy arising from a recent US Embassy statement on Rakhine State.
Speaking to a small gathering of academics, civil society leaders and journalists at the American Center in downtown Yangon, the career diplomat reiterated many of the commitments made by his predecessor Derek Mitchell, regarded as one of the principal architects of the Obama Administration’s Myanmar engagement strategy.
Ahead of a major review of US economic sanctions due later this month, Ambassador Marciel said that American officials remained committed to raising human rights matters both publicly and privately with their counterparts in the Myanmar government. (Courtesy of Frontier Myanmar)
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