Aung San Suu Kyi to travel to Norway in June
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Yangon - Myanmar's Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyiplans to visit Oslo on her first overseas tour since 1988, oppositionsources said Wednesday.
Suu Kyi, 66, plans to travel to Norway in June, although the exactdate was not yet known, a spokesman for the National League forDemocracy (NLD) said.
"I've always said that the first country I would like to visitwould be Norway because of all they did for us when we were goingthrough difficult times," she said in an interview last month.
Suu Kyi, who spent 15 of 21 years under house arrest before beingreleased in late 2010, won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by theNorwegian Nobel Committee.
"We never forget friends who stood by us during difficult times,"Suu Kyi was quoted as saying.
Suu Kyi and other members of the NLD won 43 out of 45 seats in aby-election on April 1.//DPA
