Obama ordered an exception in a visa ban on Myanmar's leaders to let
President Thein Sein travel freely during the UN General Assembly. Thein Sein would otherwise have been confined to a narrow area around the UN headquarters in New York. The Obama administration, hoping to encourage further reforms, has sent a US ambassador to Myanmar for the first time in more than two decades and has eased restrictions on investment by US companies.
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to visit the United States next month - a trip that would have been unimaginable a short while ago - where she will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, a top US honor.
Thein Sein is expected to come to the United States at roughly the same time as Suu Kyi.
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