Obama calls on Myanmar to free Suu Kyi

US President Barack Obama yesterday urged Myanmar to release detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, urging the regime to take a path to "true security and prosperity."
"We are now communicating directly with the leadership to make it clear that existing sanctions will remain until there are concrete steps toward democratic reform," he said of the military-ruled country also called Burma.
"We support a Burma that is unified, peaceful, prosperous and democratic. And as Burma moves in that direction, a better relationship with the United States is possible," Obama said in a speech delivered in Tokyo.