Bern: Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was due to visit Switzerland's parliament on day two of her European tour on Friday, after cancelling her engagements the previous evening due to exhaustion.
The opposition leader had been scheduled to dine with Swiss government officials on Thursday night but instead spent the evening in her hotel in Bern after taking ill during a press conference.
Suu Kyi, who has not visited Europe since 1988 after many years under house arrest, met for talks with Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter but cut short the following conference, telling reporters she was "totally exhausted" and not used to the time difference.
She will take a helicopter to Zurich airport before travelling on to Oslo where she will formally accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday.
The veteran activist, who is about to turn 67, began the trip on Thursday with a speech at the UN to a conference of the International Labour Organization.
Her visit marks a new milestone in the political changes that have swept her country also known as Burma since decades of military rule ended last year, ushering in a quasi-civilian government and giving her party seats in parliament.
But as she departed on her trip on Wednesday violence continued to shake western Myanmar, pitting Buddhist Rakhines against stateless Muslim Rohingya, adding to longer-running ethnic conflicts in other parts of the country.
More than 30,000 people have been displaced by the clashes in Rakhine state, where the government has declared a state of emergency, a senior local official said Thursday, while at least 29 people have been killed.
"We need the cooperation of all peoples to bring this to an end."
The opposition leader had been scheduled to dine with Swiss government officials on Thursday night but instead spent the evening in her hotel in Bern after taking ill during a press conference.
Suu Kyi, who has not visited Europe since 1988 after many years under house arrest, met for talks with Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter but cut short the following conference, telling reporters she was "totally exhausted" and not used to the time difference.
She will take a helicopter to Zurich airport before travelling on to Oslo where she will formally accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday.
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The veteran activist, who is about to turn 67, began the trip on Thursday with a speech at the UN to a conference of the International Labour Organization.
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Her visit marks a new milestone in the political changes that have swept her country also known as Burma since decades of military rule ended last year, ushering in a quasi-civilian government and giving her party seats in parliament.
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But as she departed on her trip on Wednesday violence continued to shake western Myanmar, pitting Buddhist Rakhines against stateless Muslim Rohingya, adding to longer-running ethnic conflicts in other parts of the country.
More than 30,000 people have been displaced by the clashes in Rakhine state, where the government has declared a state of emergency, a senior local official said Thursday, while at least 29 people have been killed.
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"We need the cooperation of all peoples to bring this to an end."
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