KISSTORIC President Barack Obama kisses Aung San Suu Kyi following joint remarks at her residence in Yangon, Myanmar. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country. (Photo: Jason Reed / Reuters via The Telegraph)
Aung San Suu Kyi hugs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after shaking hands with President Obama in the driveway of her home in Rangoon, Burma on Monday. Obama made history by becoming the first U.S. president to visit the nation. Post reporter @DavidNakamura took this photo and described it as a long, emotional embrace. (via washingtonpost on Instagram)
“You have been an inspiration but I know that you feel you are standing for all the people of your country who deserve the same rights and freedoms as people everywhere.”
— U.S. Secretary of state HILLARY CLINTON, in remarks following historic talks with Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ms. Suu Kyi added, “We are happy with the way in which the United States is engaging with us,” she said. “It is through engagement that we hope to promote the process of democratization. Because of this engagement, I think our way ahead will be clearer and we will be able to trust that the process of democratization will go forward.”
(Pool photo: Saul Loeb / AFP-Getty via MSNBC.com; caption via MSNBC)
This is a beautiful photo.
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