Nobel Prize Winner and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will finally set foot outside the country. This travel outside Myanmar will be first time in 24 years.
She is going to Bangkok, Thailand to deliver a speech at an international forum. Her party National League for Democracy confirmed that Suu Kyi had accepted the invitation. She will speak in the World Economic Forum on East Asia next week.
Suu Kyi (66) will be on a month travel to Europe and will address an international labour conference on June 14 in Geneva.
Suu Kyi who received her passport earlier this month then is due to visit Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 1991. She will be there on 16 June 2012. (Alexander Aris, her eldest son accepted the peace prize on her behalf in 1991). She will also meet Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg during this visit.
From June 18 she will be in UK for a week and will address both houses of parliament on 21 June. She used to live and study in Britain.
Myanmar's opposition leader won a parliamentary seat in April.
This will be the first time after 24 years that Suu Kyi will be outside Myanmar as she spent 15 under house arrest as a political prisoner.
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