Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called on Wednesday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country, and President Barack Obama, in their first White House meeting since she became leader, said the United States was ready to do so. The trip by Suu Kyi, 71, who like Obama is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, capped a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader after her party won a sweeping electoral victory last year. “We think that the time has now come to remove all the sanctions that hurt us economically,” Suu Kyi said, noting that the US Congress had supported her country by backing sanctions in the past to apply pressure for democratic reforms. After visiting the White House, Suu Kyi met with some members of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol. “We want to make sure that everybody who is entitled to citizenship is accorded citizenship as quickly and as fairly as possible,” Suu Kyi said.

Source: Hindustan Times September 14, 2016 23:26 UTC