WASHINGTON, DC: The State Department’s second-ranking diplomat flew to Myanmar in May to urge the country’s leaders not to adopt a tough “population-control” law apparently aimed at halting growth of persecuted ethnic minorities.
President Thein Sein listened politely to Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken. And hours after Blinken left Yangon, he signed the bill into law.
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