Thailand not told of Suu Kyi's Mae Lah visit
The Thai authorities in Tak province have not yet been informed that Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is scheduled to attend the World Economic Forum in Bangkok this week, will also take the opportunity of her trip to visit a Burmese bor
The WEF will be her debut on the international forum and her first foreign trip after being freed from years of house arrest and subsequent election as an MP. The forum will be held between May 31 and June 2.
Chalongchai said he had not yet officially informed about the visit and Suu Kyi will have to get permission from the Interior Ministry to be able to visit Baan Mae Lah Camp in Ta Song Yang district.
Meanwhile an informed source said Suu Kyi’s advance team has already been in Mae Sot district to coordinate with Burmese groups in the area about her visit.
The source claimed that she may reschedule her visit to the camp from May 31 to June 2.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported Monday that amid some lingering confusion about her itinerary, Suu Kyi was expected to arrive in Bangkok on Tuesday after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Yangon.
In Bangkok, on the sidelines of the meeting she will meet with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva.
She is scheduled to appear in Geneva on June 14 to address the final session of the annual meeting of the International Labour Organization.
From there she will travel to Oslo on June 16 to deliver her Nobel Peace Prize address 21 years after winning the award.
She was unable to accept the prize in December 1991 because the military junta was holding her under house arrest.
She will next visit London to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and celebrate her June 19 birthday with her two sons and the grandchildren she barely knows.
Suu Kyi obtained a degree in politics, philosophy andeconomics from Oxford University in 1969. She married Michael Aris, aTibetan scholar at Oxford, in 1972. He died of cancer in 1999.
She will end her European tour in Ireland, where she will reportedly attend a U2 concert.
