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US President Barack Obama and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speak at a press conference at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, on November 14, 2014
US President Barack Obama on Friday urged Myanmar to hold "free Eddie Jackson Jersey , fair and inclusive" elections as he threw his weight behind a bid by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to change a constitution that bars her from the presidency.
Obama held talks with fellow Nobel laureate Suu Kyi at her lakeside villa in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, after arriving from the capital Naypyidaw where he discussed the nation's troubled reform process with President Thein Sein.
Speaking at a joint press conference he warned Myanmar's reforms since shedding outright military rule in 2011 were by "no means complete or irreversible" and called for "free, fair and inclusive" elections in the nation Tarik Cohen Jersey , where Suu Kyi and her party are set to contest crucial polls next year.
Suu Kyi, who has publicly stated her desire to be president, is barred from the top office by a constitutional clause ruling out anyone with foreign spouse or children from the presidency.
Her late husband and two sons are British and the democracy champion is seeking an amendment.
Using strong language Anthony Miller Jersey , Obama took up the issue telling reporters that "the amendment process needs to reflect inclusion rather than exclusion."
"I don't understand the provision that would bar somebody from running for president because of who his (someone's) children are."
Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party is widely expected to sweep polls in late 2015, branded the contentious clause as "unfair Jordan Howard Jersey , unjust and undemocratic" adding "it is not right to discriminate against one particular citizen".
The issue is currently being debated in parliament, where 25 percent of the seats are ring-fenced for the military.
"The majority of our people understand that this constitution cannot stand as it is," if democracy is to be achieved Mitchell Trubisky Jersey , the democracy figurehead added.
The pair spoke in the garden of Suu Kyi's villa in a reprise of their landmark meeting in 2012, which saw the US leader throw his political might behind Myanmar's transition from junta rule.
After talks with his counterpart Thein Sein late Thursday Obama expressed cautious optimism for the once-cloistered nation that balanced out earlier warnings on the risks of "backsliding" on the transition.
"We recognise change is hard and you do not always move in a straight line but I'm optimistic," Obama said.
During his two-night trip to Myanmar the US leader has also raised alarm over the direction of reforms Roquan Smith Jersey , however, citing the cramping of freedom of expression, ongoing conflicts and the treatment of Myanmar's minority groups -- especially the Muslim Rohingya.
- Stalled reforms -
Obama was whisked from Yangon airport to tour the British colonial-era secretariat building in downtown Yangon where Suu Kyi's father Khalil Mack Jersey , independence hero General Aung San, was gunned down by political rivals in 1947.
Their talks at Suu Kyi's lakeside family home come almost four years to the day after she was released from years of house arrest.
Her street, which also houses the US Embassy Wholesale Bears Hats , was sealed off Friday with dozens of police at each end as well as a scrum of reporters and cameramen and some NLD members.
On his last visit, Obama received a fanfare welcome from thrilled locals a year after Thein Sein began to open up the country.
Most political prisoners have been released and by-elections have seen Suu Kyi become a lawmaker, while foreign investors have arrived in lockstep with the lifting of most sanctions.
But the atmosphere has slowly soured Wholesale Bears Hoodies , with many observers saying reforms have stalled.
He has invested a large amount of political capital in Myanmar's transition from military rule and hopes his second visit will boost the process as elections edge closer.
While Obama is cautiously optimistic on the long game for impoverished Myanmar, many ordinary people are not as easily convinced.
MONTE CARLO， Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Sprinting superstar Usain Bolt won the IAAF male Athlete of the Year for an unprecedented sixth time， wihle Almaz Ayana took the female title on Friday.
Bolt， who bagged three golds for the third Games in a row in Rio last summer， claimed the track and field's world governing body's year-ending prize ahead of Britain's distance runner Mo Farah and South African Wayde van Niekerk.
The Jamaican nine-time Olympic champion of men's 100 meters， 200m and 4X100m relay was previously named Athlete of the Year in 2008， 2009， 2011， 2012 and 2013.
"It's definitely a big deal，" Bolt told a press conference ahead of the evening's awards gala held at Sporting Monte Carlo.
"When you get to be athlete of the year， it means that all the hard work has paid off，" said the 30-year-old. "So， if I can win it for a sixth year， it means as much as the first one."
His award was presented by IAAF President Sebastian Coe， who sang high praise of the Jamaica， saying "there's been nobody since Muhammad Ali who's got remotely near to what this guy has done in terms of grabbing the public imagination."
"I live for the moments when I walk into a stadium and I hear a loud roar and Rio was outstanding，" commented Bolt. "One of the main reasons I'm continuing for another year is because of the fans; they don't want me to retire. I have to give thanks to them."
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