Myanmar State Counsellor begins official visit to Vietnam

She is accompanied by Minister of Transport and Communications Thant Sin Maung, Deputy Minister of the President’s Office U Min Thu, and Deputy Minister of Planning and Finance U Set Aung, among others.

Born in 1945 in Yangon, Aung San Suu Kyi graduated from the University of Delhi in 1964 and the University of Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. She was General Secretary of the National League for Democracy from 1988–2011 and she has also been the President of the National League for Democracy from 2012 to the present. She has held the position as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of the President’s Office since March, 2016 and has been Myanmar State Counsellor since April, 2016.