Suu Kyi arrives for two-day visit

Setopati

2018-11-29 12:06:14

Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived for a two-day visit on invitation of Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli. Deputy PM and Defense Minister Ishwore Pokharel welcomed State Counselor of Myanmar Suu Kyi who landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) moments ago. The Foreign Ministry has called her visit an official goodwill visit. She will also participate in the Asia Pacific Summit being held from November 30 to December 3 in Kathmandu during her stay here. She will return back on the day the summit will be inaugurated. She will also pay a visit to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari apart from discussing bilateral relationships and mutual benefits with PM Oli during her Nepal stay. Suu Kyi had earlier visited Nepal in 2014 as an opposition leader. She is visiting Nepal for the first time after her party National League for Democracy came to power after the general elections in 2015. She has been serving as state counselor, the de facto head of the government, since 2016 as the military junta put a provision in the constitution that prevented any person whose spouse/parents/children are foreign nationals from becoming the president. She has been widely criticized by the international community in recent times for her silence on persecution against the Rohingyas of Rakhine state in the country.