Analysis | Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi set to visit China next month, her party says
No word from Beijing on democracy icon going to neighbour, Myanmar’s largest trading partner
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit China next month, senior members of her political party said.
"We asked for some of her time … but she said she might be going to China and needed some free time in December," Han Thar Myint, of the National League for Democracy's Central Executive Committee, told the .
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama announced he would meet Suu Kyi in Yangon on November 14, during a six-day trip that also includes stops in China and Australia, the White House said.
Obama will spend three days in Myanmar, and will participate in a US-Asean summit in its capital, Naypyidaw, where a bilateral meeting with Myanmar president Thein Sein is also planned.
Obama called Myanmar's president last week to underscore "the need for an inclusive and credible process for conducting the 2015 elections". A constitutional clause barring Suu Kyi from running for president is under review.
Suu Kyi's NLD is preparing to contest the general elections scheduled for the end of next year, the first such free vote in more than two decades in the Southeast Asian nation.
Suu Kyi's China invitation was not handled by her party, but her personal office. Dr Tin Mar Aung, her personal assistant, said she could not comment. The Chinese embassy in Yangon did not reply to a request for comment.
