US President Obama hails Burma's 'remarkable journey'

19 November 2012 Last updated at 15:14 ET Help

Barack Obama has hailed the "remarkable journey" undertaken by Burma as he became the first serving US president to visit the country.

But after a meeting with the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Obama warned that 'the flickers of progress the world had seen must not be extinguished'.

Fergal Keane reports from Rangoon in Burma.

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