Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has urged businesses to invest in her country, a day after US President Barack Obama pledged to lift long-standing sanctions. During the second day of an official visit to the US capital, Suu Kyi added that Myanmar's transition to democracy is a work-in-progess.

"We are now, we have now started on the path to democracy. I always said, that when the first elections - free and fair to a certain extent - elections were held in 2010, that the door had been opened but we had not yet stepped out on to the path. Now we have stepped out on to the path but it's a long one and we have to make sure that we manage to keep going in spite of the obstacles, the stones, the thorns, the diversions," she said.