Suu Kyi starts European tour
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Myanmar prisoner-turned-parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Geneva late on Wednesday (June 13) for the start of her 17-day European tour.
The hugely popular Nobel Peace laureate will take in five countries - Switzerland, Norway, Britain, Ireland and France - on a trip almost certain to wrest the international spotlight away from the astonishing reforms vaunted by Myanmar's once-vilified leaders.
Hours earlier, the International Labour Organization (ILO) lifted more than a decade-old punitive restrictions on Myanmar in recognition of progress including a new law on trade unions and pledge to end forced labour by 2015.
"I think the international community is trying very hard to bring my country into it and it's up to our country to respond the right way as well," Suu Kyi said.
This is Suu Kyi's second trip outside Myanmar in almost a quarter of a century which would have been unimaginable 19 months ago when an authoritarian junta ruled Myanmar and confined her to her home.
She is due to address the International Labour Organization's conference in Geneva and the British parliament in London. She will also give an acceptance speech in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991.
A birthday party will be held for her in London and she will return to Oxford University, which she attended in the 1970s, to receive an honorary doctorate.
In Dublin, she will receive an award from Amnesty International, which has arranged a concert for her which will include a performance by Bono.
Myanmar prisoner-turned-parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Geneva late on Wednesday (June 13) for the start of her 17-day European tour.
The hugely popular Nobel Peace laureate will take in five countries - Switzerland, Norway, Britain, Ireland and France - on a trip almost certain to wrest the international spotlight away from the astonishing reforms vaunted by Myanmar's once-vilified leaders.
Hours earlier, the International Labour Organization (ILO) lifted more than a decade-old punitive restrictions on Myanmar in recognition of progress including a new law on trade unions and pledge to end forced labour by 2015.
"I think the international community is trying very hard to bring my country into it and it's up to our country to respond the right way as well," Suu Kyi said.
This is Suu Kyi's second trip outside Myanmar in almost a quarter of a century which would have been unimaginable 19 months ago when an authoritarian junta ruled Myanmar and confined her to her home.
She is due to address the International Labour Organization's conference in Geneva and the British parliament in London. She will also give an acceptance speech in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991.
A birthday party will be held for her in London and she will return to Oxford University, which she attended in the 1970s, to receive an honorary doctorate.
In Dublin, she will receive an award from Amnesty International, which has arranged a concert for her which will include a performance by Bono.
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