Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on Tuesday, officials say.
They are expected to discuss the political changes in Burma, nine months after they last met in Rangoon.
The meeting comes after Burma released more than 500 prisoners on Monday.
Ms Suu Kyi, who was freed from house arrest in 2010 and is now a member of parliament, arrived in the US on Monday.
Her 18-day trip is her first to the US in two decades.
She is scheduled to receive numerous awards, including the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honour in the US, on Wednesday.
She will also meet various Burmese groups in different parts of the US.
The Nobel laureate is also likely to face questions over deadly ethnic conflict in western Rakhine state earlier this year, reports say.
The violence, which pitted Burma's majority Buddhists against minority Muslims, was sparked by the rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman. Dozens of people died and thousands were displaced.
Rights groups have expressed concern over the fate of the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim group who Burma says are not Burmese citizens but who have often been denied asylum in neighbouring countries.
Burmese President Thein Sein is also expected to arrive in the US next week following his official trip to China.
Ms Suu Kyi spent years under house arrest in Burma, but was elected to parliament in April.
The new civilian-led, but military-backed, government has enacted a series of political and social reforms, including the relaxing of media laws, the legalisation of protests and the release of hundreds of political prisoners.
In response, Western nations including the US have lifted sanctions imposed during the military rule.
18 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19633062#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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