美國國務卿探訪緬甸

On 30.11.2011 the NHK News on-line reported the following:
アメリカのクリントン国務長官は３０日、国務長官として５６年ぶりとなるミャンマー訪問を開始し、テイン・セイン大統領や民主化運動のリーダー、アウン・サン・スー・チーさんと会談して、民主化の進み具合を直接確かめることにしています。
アメリカのクリントン国務長官は３０日午後４時半（日本時間の７時ごろ）、専用機でミャンマーの首都、ネピドーの空港に到着しました。クリントン国務長官のミャンマー訪問は、今月中旬にインドネシアで開かれた東アジアサミットに合わせてオバマ大統領が発表したもので、アメリカの国務長官がミャンマーを訪問したのは５６年ぶりです。アメリカは、ミャンマーの前の軍事政権による民主化勢力への弾圧を受け、経済制裁など厳しい対応をとってきました。クリントン国務長官は来月１日、テイン・セイン大統領らと会談し、すべての政治犯の釈放などさらなる民主化政策を推し進めるよう求めるものとみられます。２日には最大の都市ヤンゴンでアウン・サン・スー・チーさんとも会談し、現在の政権への評価を直接聞くなどして、今後の関係改善が可能かどうか探りたい考えとみられます。アメリカの対応はミャンマーに対し今も経済制裁を続けているほかの国々の動きにも影響を与えるとみられ、一連の会談の結果が注目されます。
(試譯文)
On the 30th (November) the US Secretary of State Clinton started the visit to Myanmar which would become the first time in 56 years for a Secretary of State; she would confer with President Thein Sein and the leader of the democracy movement Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, so as to confirm directly the progress on the condition of democratization.
US Secretary of State Clinton arrived at the the airport in Naypyidaw, the capital in Myanmar at half past four in the afternoon (around the 7:00 JST time) on the 30th in a special flight. Secretary of State Clinton's visit to Myanmar was in accordance with what President Obama had announced in the East Asia summit meeting opened in the middle of this month in Indonesia, and it was the first time in 56 years that an American Secretary of State to visit Myanmar. The United States noted the suppression of the pro-democracy movement by the previous military regime in Myanmar, and had taken severe response, such as economic sanctions. The Secretary of State Clinton would confer with President Thein Sein and others who were expected to be asked to promote further democratization policies, such as the release of all the political criminals, on the 1st of the next month. She would also confer with Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in the biggest city Yangon on the 2nd, evaluating the present political power that she would enquire directly. It was seen as having the idea of wishing to explore the possibility of relationship improvement in the future. It was expected that U.S.'s response to Myanmar would affect movement in other countries which were still subjecting to continuing economic sanctions. The result of a series of talks would attract attention.

This visit by the United States's Secretary of State could be seen as another indication that the American is returning back to Asian. Probably China would respond to this visit shortly.