US officials to meet Suu Kyi

Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was today set to meet senior US State Department officials.

Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for East Asia, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, are the highest-level Americans to visit Burma since 1995. Their trip stems from a new US policy that reverses the George W Bush administration’s isolation of the nation in favour of direct, high-level talks with a country that has been ruled by the military since 1962.