Wired News: Suu Kyi accepts invita

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Subject: Wired News:  Suu Kyi accepts invitation to Norway (Reuter)

    OSLO, July 17 (Reuter) - Freed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has
accepted an invitation to visit Norway but no date has been set, a Norwegian foreign ministry
spokesman said on Monday.
     Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent struggle for
democracy and human rights in Burma, received the invitation in a letter from Norwegian
Foreign Minister Bjoern Tore Godal.
     "She accepted in principle but it was in doubt when she would be able to leave Burma,"
ministry spokesman Kaare Eltervaag told Reuters.
     Suu Kyi, 50, was placed under house arrest on July 20, 1989 for "endangering the state,"
but was never charged or tried. She was unexpectedly released unconditionally last
Monday.
     A spokeswoman for Norway's Nobel Committee said director Geir Lundestad had
renewed an invitation for Suu Kyi to deliver her Nobel Lecture in Oslo.
     The Nobel Prize was collected on Suu Kyi's behalf by her husband and two sons at an
awards ceremony in December 1991.
     "It was agreed in 1991 that she would come to give the lecture when she could and the
director has renewed that invitation," the spokeswoman said.
     "But we haven't heard from Suu Kyi yet. That depends on how things work out in Burma
and how safe she feels (to be able) to return (there)," she said.
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