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Later on March 20, 1879, former US President Ulysses Grant visited Rangoon for a short visit on a round-the-world tour following his retirement from the presidency. At the time of his visit, lower Burma, including Rangoon, had been lost to the British in the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
The United States recognized Burma and established the Embassy of the United States, Rangoon on September 19, 1947, with Earl L. Packer as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. After 1990 the United States appointed no ambassador to Burma in protest against the policies of the military regime. A chargé d'affaires became the head of mission until 2012.
The US also re-established ambassador-level relations with Myanmar in 2012 for the first time since 1990. [46] However, the US re-imposed targeted sanctions following the 2017 Rohingya genocide [ 47 ] and the 2021 myanmar coup d'état , [ 48 ] focusing on individuals and companies involved in atrocities and human rights violations.
Mr. Myaing serves as Managing Director of Myanmar Agri - Tech Carbon Capital Ltd. since 2006 served as an Advisor of Serge Pun & Associates (Myanmar) Limited (also known as SPA (Myanmar) Ltd.) and the Group Public Relations and Protocol Department. since November 2011 he headed the Corporate Secretariat Department at Myanmar. Than Shwe: George ...
United States portal This category is for bilateral relations between Myanmar and the United States . The main article for this category is Myanmar–United States relations .
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Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats ...
Between May 2000 to March 2009, Than Swe worked in the Ministry of Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs. [1] In July 2012, he was appointed as Myanmar's ambassador to the United States, becoming the first to serve since 2004 and signalling the restoration of full diplomatic ties between the two countries (see Myanmar–United States relations). [3]