Burma has hired Podesta Group to an $840K one-year contract to keep it updated on US policies and the overall political scene. The country has been without DC representation for more than a decade.
The firm also will do outreach to US Congressional staffs, media and non-governmental agencies for the country formally known as Myanmar.
Myanmar says it is committed to a transition to democratic rule. Elections are slated for November.
With then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama visited Myanmar is 2012.
He was the first sitting US President to visit the once-isolated nation that was dominated by a ruthless military junta. Obama returnedl ast year.
Podesta's Mark Tavlarides, former National Security Council legislative affairs director in the Clinton White House/VP at Van Scoyoc Assocs., and John Anderson, ex-Washington Post foreign correspondent and Politico editor, handle Myanmar's DC work.
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