WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., who just returned from a two-week trip to Southeast Asia, says he plans to hold a hearing on U.S. relations with Myanmar.
Webb, who also visited Vietnam and Thailand, was the first member of the U.S. Congress to travel to the country formerly known as Burma in a decade and the first U.S. official ever to meet Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the country's leader. He also met Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has been under house arrest almost continuously for years, and was able to secure the release of Jon Yettaw, a U.S. citizen convicted of illegally visiting Suu Kyi.