More good news out of Washington D.C. concerning President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration’s interest in Myanmar. At a hearing Wednesday morning, State Department Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell told Congressional members that he would lead a team to Myanmar in the next few weeks.

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“We intend to go to Burma in the next few weeks for a fact-finding mission,” Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. He gave no dates or details.

“During our trip, we will talk to the Burmese government, representatives of the ethnic nationalities and the democratic opposition including the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi and others,” he testified in a hearing.

Campbell earlier met with Myanmar’s minister of science, technology and labor, the highest level contact with the government since in nine years.