Aung San Suu Kyi to leave Burma for first time in 24 years

“It will demonstrate that the government allows her not only to travel,
but also to return to Burma afterwards and continue her political activities,”
he told AFP.

Suu Kyi will meet Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra during her trip, but the
timing has not yet to be confirmed, the prime minister’s secretary general
Thawat Boonfeung told AFP.

Suu Kyi is also set to visit Burma migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province,
south of Bangkok, on Wednesday according to local activists.

Thailand’s workforce is heavily reliant on low-cost foreign workers, both
legal and trafficked, with Burma nationals accounting for around 80 per cent
of the two million registered foreign workers in the country.

Suu Kyi is also expected to travel to the north of the country to meet some of
the roughly 100,000 refugees displaced by conflict in Burma’s eastern border
areas.

The Nobel laureate is scheduled to speak in an open discussion with World
Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and appear at a session on the role of
Asian women on Friday.

Suu Kyi’s European travel plans include an address to an International Labour
Organization conference in Geneva on June 14.

After that she will make a speech in Oslo on June 16 to finally accept the
Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1991 for her peaceful struggle for
democracy, according to the Nobel Committee.

She also intends to travel to Britain, where she lived for years with her
family, and will address parliament in London on June 21.

Burma President Thein Sein, who is credited with a string of reforms that have
prompted the international community to ease sanctions, has postponed his
official visit to Thailand, which would have clashed with Suu Kyi’s trip.

He will now travel to the country on June 4 and 5, according to the Thai
foreign ministry.

Source: AFP

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