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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) talks with Thein Sein, Myanmar's president, in Phnom Penh on Monday before the welcome dinner ahead of the 20th ASEAN Summit slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Cambodia. (Associated Press)
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Three national leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit — (from left) Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Myanmar President Thein Sein — join hands during a group photo at the opening ceremony of the bloc's 20th summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein after a group photograph at the opening ceremony of the 20th ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Mrs. Suu Kyi (left) walks out of a polling station on the outskirts of Yangon on Sunday, a day that would see her elected to her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government of Myanmar.
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Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy cheer the election results Sunday in Yangon, Myanmar. Mrs. Suu Kyi's election to a parliamentary seat sets the stage for her to take public office for the first time, 21 years after she received the the Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent campaign for democracy in her home country. (Associated Press)
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Aung San Suu Kyi (center), Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, pauses for journalists outside a polling station on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Once persecuted by her government, Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is seen as having a good chance to win a seat in parliament. (Associated Press)
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Film: They Call It Myanmar
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**FILE** Myanmar's Sports Minister Tint Hsan attends a Feb. 12, 2011, ceremony to mark the 64th Union Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Associated Press)
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Shin Gambira, a dissident monk in Myanmar who helped lead an uprising against the government, is facing new legal action after being released from jail Jan. 13. (Associated Press)
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) waves to supporters on her arrival in Dawei, Myanmar, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Thousands of supporters in Myanmar's countryside cheered Mrs. Suu Kyi as she made a political tour ahead of parliamentary by-elections. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Pyone Cho (center), an activist of the 88 Generation Students Group, joins his parents upon his arrival at Yangon airport after released from a prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet Western demands for lifting economic sanctions. (Associated Press)
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Freed inmates leave the Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Jan. 3, 2012. Families of political prisoners in Myanmar say a government clemency offer falls short of national reconciliation promises and shows that prisoners of conscience may remain incarcerated for a long time. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets democracy advocate leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. chief of mission residence in Yangon, Myanmar, in December 2011. (Associated Press)
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Myanmar President Thein Sein (right) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the President's Office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted by Myanmar's Deputy Foreign Minister Myo Myint (left) upon her arrival Wednesday in Naypyidaw. It is the first trip to the Southeast Asian nation by a secretary of state in more than 50 years. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves alongside Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Myo Myint (left) upon her arrival in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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**FILE** Attendees at the Retreat Session of the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 19, 2011, include (from left) U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar President Thein Sein (rear), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Vietnamese President Nguyen Tan Dung, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. (Associated Press)
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U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
