Top ranking American diplomat meets Aung San Suu Kyi

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Updated November 5, 2009 12:04:43

The highest ranking American official to visit Burma in more than a decade has held talks in Rangoon with the country's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell also met Burma's prime minister, putting into action the Obama administration's new policy of engagement with the military government.

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