- Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Europe next month to make several speeches
- She will also travel to Thailand next week for a regional conference
- It will be her first trip abroad since she was released from years of house arrest
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip outside the country in more than two decades when she visits Thailand next week to attend a regional conference, a spokesman for her party said Thursday.
Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy campaigner who endured years of house arrest under Myanmar's military rulers, will travel to the Thai capital of Bangkok on Monday where she will participate in the World Economic Forum on East Asia, said Nyan Win, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy.
The visit to Bangkok comes ahead of a longer trip to Europe next month during which Suu Kyi will make a series of key addresses, including the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize that she was prevented from collecting in 1991 because she was in detention.
Nyan Win and the organizers of the World Economic Forum declined to give more information about what part Suu Kyi would play at the Bangkok conference.
Aung San Suu Kyi takes oath of office Suu Kyi and other members of her party took up their seats in the Myanmar parliament at the start of this month, a historic step for the country's progress toward democracy.
CNN's Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.
