Suu Kyi to visit Bangkok in late June
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MYANMAR’S State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Thailand in late June for bilateral talks, according to the President’s Office.
The President’s Office spokesman Zaw Htay told the Chiang Mai-based Irrawaddy that the exact date of the visit was still being discussed by the two governments.
Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai visited Myanmar in early May to extend an invitation from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to President Htin Kyaw and Suu Kyi to visit Thailand.
But it is unclear currently if the two Myanmar leaders will visit Thailand at the same time.
However, Irrawaddy reported that Suu Kyi would visit Bangkok from June 23-25, and that Htin Kyaw would also come.
Suu Kyi, now the de-facto leader of Myanmar, took office in March after her National League for Democracy had a landslide victory in the election last November. She heads its first civilian government in half a century. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi came to Thailand in 2012 for a meeting of the World Economic Forum.
