Myanmar’s opposition leader to visit UK

Last week, David Cameron met Suu Kyi, leader of National League for Democracy party (NLD), in her villa in Yangoon and invited her to visit Britain in her first trip abroad for 24 years and promised to urge the European nations to suspend Myanmar’s sanctions.

Cameron was the first top Western leader to set foot on Myanmar soil right after NLD won a landslide victory in the by-election, securing 43 of the 44 seats it contested.

Nyan Win, NLD party spokesman, said that Suu Kyi accepted UK PM’s invitation and will visit the country. She will visit Norway first and will attend several meetings in Oslo.

She will then move to Britain and is expected to visit Oxford, where she attended the university in the 1970s.

“I don’t know the exact dates but she said she will go in June. She will go to Norway, have some meetings in Oslo, and then go to the UK,” he said.

Meanwhile, the British Foreign Office refused to confirm the news, with a spokesman saying Suu Kyi was still considering the invitation of the PM, delivered during his visit to the southeast Asian country on Friday 13 April.

Political observers have voiced their concerns over the current close ties the British government has built with Myanmar, which has long been isolated by Western governments. They stressed that the British government is probably seeking to increase its influence over its former colony that is still called by the British officials and media by its colonialist-era name, Burma.

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