US Senator Confers With Burmese Junta

United States Senator James Webb, the senior Democratic senator from Virginia, and head of the foreign relations subcommittee on East Asia, has traveled to the Burmese regime’s isolated jungle capital, Naypyidaw. Webb supports a policy of engagement with the Burmese junta and an end to sanctions, will arrived in Burma on Friday [today] to see the country’s leader, General Than Shwe, in the first meeting of its kind. It comes days after the conviction and detention of the democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and an eccentric American who made an uninvited visit to her home. More from The Times of London, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.