Aung San Suu Kyi, who was freed from house arrest in 2010 and is now a member of parliament, arrived in the US on Monday for her first visit to the country in two decades.
It has said that North Korea's nuclear programme will be a main priority in Japan's efforts to normalise relations with North Korea following an historic visit in September to the country's capital, Pyongyang, by Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese prime minister.
In the 1970s, Nixon became the first sitting American president to visit that country, but in the 1870s Ulysses S. Grant was the first former occupant of the White House to do so.
What struck me was that the students and I get a lot of positive attention for the trip and the fund raising we do for a deserving NGO in the country we visit but that the accounting manager at our Faculty gets neglected, but without her, we could not possibly go on the trip.
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Mrs Clinton arrived in Phnom Penh from Laos where she made history as the first top US diplomat to visit the country in nearly six decades.
It will also allow officers from the Metropolitan Police who are investigating the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 to visit the country.
When U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on March 20th for an official state visit to the richly historic country, his itinerary will include a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a stop at the Israel Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a close-up look at a missile defense battery.
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The 13-minute address at Amman International Stadium comes days after the pope arrived in the country as part of his weeklong visit to the Mideast to promote a good relationship between Muslims and Christians.
David Cameron is expected to visit Burma this week and will be the first western leader to visit the country since it first fell foul of international sanctions in the late nineties.
President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in India for two days of talks, making him the fifth and final leader from a nation with a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council to visit the South Asian country in 2010.
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During the deployment, a visit to the El Callao naval base in Peru was cancelled by the South American country as an "act of solidarity" with Argentina in its dispute with the UK over the Falkland Islands.
We will be going -- he will be going first to Boulder City, Nevada, where he will visit the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest photovoltaic plant operating in the country, with nearly one million solar panels powering 17, 000 homes.
With those words David Cameron heralded his arrival in Algeria - the first Western leader to visit this country since the hostage crisis which left 38 foreigners dead and the first British prime minister to visit in half a century of Algerian independence.
Golden Week is a national holiday that lasts seven days and is supposed to foster tourism, consumption, and allow workers to visit family members in more remote areas of the country.
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At question time on 13 December 2010, Labour former defence secretary Bob Ainsworth asked why David Cameron had suggested soldiers could start to be withdrawn in 2011 during his recent visit to the country.
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Most people who do visit Kafue, located in the southern centre of the country, head to Busanga Plain in the north of the park.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in Ireland for the first ever Papal visit to the country.
Khan was prepared to leave the country Saturday to visit his wife in Pakistan for four months, he told CNN, but decided to postpone the trip until the issue is resolved.
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Mr. Mancini, acting on behalf of his government, had assured the judges the two naval officers, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, would return to the country to face murder charges after the court allowed them to visit Italy to vote in national elections.
Ahead of the visit, Lady Ashton said that the EU welcomed what it called the "remarkable changes" in the country and said it marked "a new chapter in our relations".
Now, let's face it, a lot of important people visit the White House. (Laughter.) But to young people in classrooms around the country, nobody is more important than the men and women that we honor here today -- the State and National Teachers of the Year.
It's Jack Straw's third visit to Iraq this year, while Rice was last in the country in November.
He is the first British prime minister to visit the North African country since it became independent in 1962.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday, 12 May, in the morning, for his first official visit to the country.
It was clear from my visit that people valued the work and saw this country in a different way because of the work that you were doing.
With this weak, tepid brew of message movie and family drama, the sensei moves further away than ever from his trademark imagistic energy toward the contemplative style of previous Japanese masters. (Even the title recalls Ozu.) In this tri-generational story, four children vacation with their grandmother (Sachiko Murase) in the country outside Nagasaki while their parents visit a granduncle and his half-American son (Richard Gere) in Hawaii.
The festival's founder Wayne Hemingway said he fell in love with the country estate when he went to visit it.
Later in the broadcast, we will visit with the leader of one of the country's largest Muslim congregations.
Bush arrived in the country Sunday night from Bogota, marking the first visit by a U.S. president to the Colombian capital since Ronald Reagan in 1982.
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