Washington - Two senior US officials will travel to Myanmar next week for meetings with leaders of the military junta as part of a policy to engage the regime and persuade it to allow democratic change. US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and deputy Scott Marciel will be in Myanmar, also known as Burma, from November 3-4, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said.
President Barack Obama's administration held a policy review on Myanmar after taking office and concluded the best way forward was to promote dialogue between the two sides.
The two US diplomats, however, will also meet with the opposition, including leading democratic activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held under house arrest since 2003, Wood said.
The talks are a follow up to a senior level meeting that took place in New York in September.
