Nobel peace Laureate and Myanmar’s democratic icon Aung San Suu Kyi is coming to Nepal on June 14 on a two-day visit.
Suu Kyi is coming here at the invitation of BP Koirala Chintan Prastisthan and BP Koirala Memorial Trust on the occasion of Koirala’s centenary birth celebration, said Dinesh Bhattarai, Foreign Relations Adviser to the Prime Minister Sushil Koirala.
She will deliver a key note speech at a programme “Relevance of Social Democrary” to be jointly organised by Trust and Prastisthan on June 15. She is scheduled to visit Lumbini and address parliament on democracy and its importance in this part of the world. She will also meet President Ram Baran Yadav and top leaders of the major political parties, according to Bhattarai.
On the sidelines of the Third Bimstec Summit in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Prime Minister Koirala had invited Suu Kyi to visit Nepal.
During the meeting in Naypyidaw, PM Koirala and Suu Kyi had exchanged views on long struggle that Suu Kyi and Koirala families had endured to institutionalise democracy in their respective countries, said Bhattarai.
Suu Kyi who was educated in India, had very strong personal ties with late BP Koirala and used to work together and share common view on struggle for democracy and socialism as both leaders were very active in socialist international movement.
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