Obama to Myanmar: America 'is with you'

November 19, 2012 16:34

In a historic breakthrough, President Barack Obama today stepped onto the soil of long-shunned Myanmar and into the flag-waving embrace of its once repressed people.

"You gave us hope," he declared, the first US president to visit what not long ago had been an international outcast. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to welcome Obama to a place still learning its basic freedoms. Speaking to a national audience from the University of Yangon, Obama offered a "hand of friendship" and a lasting US commitment, yet a warning as well.

He said the new civilian government must nurture democracy or watch it, and US support, disappear.

Mwaah! US President Barack Obama kisses Aung San Suu Kyi following joint remarks at her residence in Yangon. Pic: Reuters

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