WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has postponed a visit to Myanmar and Vietnam this month due to scheduling issues, including upcoming congressional hearings, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday. Hagel had been expected to visit the Southeast Asian countries in the middle to the month. He had been expected to attend a meeting of defense ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Myanmar, while the Vietnam leg was a bilateral visit following a U.S. decision to relax a long-standing U.S. arms embargo on Hanoi. ...
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