As donor darling Myanmar gets ready to hold general elections in late 2015, the United States is increasing its diplomatic presence in the former military state — with the U.S. Agency for International Development as one of the main arms.
“USAID doesn’t have a traditional development agenda in [Myanmar],” Jason Foley, deputy assistant administrator at the the agency’s Asian bureau, said Wednesday in an event hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“Beginning in 2015, we are broadening our diplomatic engagement to focus on three key areas: the elections, the peace process and Rakhine state,” he added.