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Yangon, Myanmar:
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to India next month in her first trip in 40 years to the country where her mother served as ambassador.
A foreign diplomat serving in Myanmar said on Thursday that Suu Kyi will deliver the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on November 14. The diplomat, asked not to be named since details of the visit have not been finalised yet, said she would travel to India on November 12.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited Suu Kyi to deliver the lecture when he met with her in Yangon in May.
Suu Kyi studied in New Delhi after her mother, Khin Kyi, was appointed Myanmar's ambassador to India in 1960.
A foreign diplomat serving in Myanmar said on Thursday that Suu Kyi will deliver the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on November 14. The diplomat, asked not to be named since details of the visit have not been finalised yet, said she would travel to India on November 12.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited Suu Kyi to deliver the lecture when he met with her in Yangon in May.
Suu Kyi studied in New Delhi after her mother, Khin Kyi, was appointed Myanmar's ambassador to India in 1960.
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