Three US Congress staffers met with representatives from the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) in Rangoon for talks about political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi, and the US policy review on Burma, an NLD spokesman said.
“We met with the Congress staffers at NLD headquarters at 4 p.m. On Friday. The main reason for their trip is to discuss humanitarian issues,” NLD spokesman Nyan Win said. “We talked about Burmese politics—the first issue they raised concerned the political prisoners.”
The US Congress staffers also asked about Suu Kyi’s detention, he said.
During the meeting, the staffers told the NLD policymakers are still discussing a US policy shift in Washington. “But they said they did not think a decision on the Burma policy review will come soon,” Nyan Win said.
After US Senator Jim Webb’s recent trip and article in the New York Times, Nyan Win said he told the Congress staffers that Suu Kyi said she did not think his trip and his writing reflected the policy of the Obama administration.
“I think the staffers came to Burma to survey the facts for the policy review or for Congress,” he said.
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