U.S Embassy in Rangoon Suspends Vis

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US embassy in Yangon suspends visa operations amid security review
Sat 12 Sep 98 - 06:11 GMT
BANGKOK, Sept 12 (AFP) - The US embasy in Yangon has stopped issuing non-
immigrant
visas amid a security review prompted by last month's bombings of two missions
in Africa, an
embassy spokesman said Saturday.
"We suspended non-immigrant visa operations while we review security," the
spokesman said
from the Myanmar capital by telephone.
"It has nothing to do with the local situation at all," the spokesman added,
referring to escalating
political tensions in Myanmar.
Washington has ordered US embassies and other facilities to check security
after the August 7
bombings of its missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which killed 257 people.
Residents said security had already been tightened at the Yangon embassy, with
extra Myanmar
police deployed and parking of cars in the immediate vicinity banned.