YANGON — Myanmar's President Thein Sein will embark on a four-day
visit to Britain and France within days, an official said Tuesday, as
the international community continues to welcomes reforms in the former
junta-ruled country.
"The president will go to Britain and France
from July 14 to 18," a presidential office official told AFP on
condition of anonymity without giving further details of the visit,
Thein Sein's second trip to Europe in months.
The president's spokesman Ye Htut was unable to confirm the dates.
Thein
Sein visited several European countries in March -- although not
Britain or France -- to seek support for reforms that he has overseen
since taking the presidency in 2011.
Those changes include freeing
some political prisoners and welcoming democracy champion Aung San Suu
Kyi and her political party into parliament.
The European Union
last month readmitted Myanmar to its trade preference scheme, saying it
wanted to support reform in the once-pariah state through economic
development.
The EU had already ditched most sanctions against the country, although an arms embargo remains.
Washington
has also lifted most embargoes and foreign companies are now eager to
enter the resource-rich nation, with its perceived frontier market of
some 60 million potential consumers.
Barack Obama paid a first-ever US presidential visit to Myanmar last November, and Thein Sein visited Washington in May.
source: AFP
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