Suu Kyi welcomes world reaching out to Myanmar

June 14, 2012 03:58 pm | Updated July 31, 2016 01:15 pm IST - GENEVA

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives with ILO director Juan Somavia during the 101st International Labour Organization Conference in Geneva on Thursday.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives with ILO director Juan Somavia during the 101st International Labour Organization Conference in Geneva on Thursday.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says investment in her country should strengthen its nascent process of democratisation.

Businesses have been eager to invest in the Southeast Asian nation as it emerges from international isolation after the end of military rule.

The Nobel Peace Laureate spoke Thursday at the annual meeting of the International Labour Organization in Geneva on the first stop of her trip to Europe. It is the first time she has visited the continent in 24 years during which the military-led government kept her under house arrest for 15 years.

The ILO decided on Wednesday to lift restrictions on Myanmar’s participation in its work in recognition of recent democratic reforms in the country.

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