Aung San Suu Kyi to Norway on 15–18 June

Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit Norway from 15 to 18 June.

Aung San Suu Kyi will arrive in Oslo in the afternon on Friday 15 June. She will have a meeting with Prime Minister Stoltenberg in late afternoon. After that there will be a press conference at the Prime Minister’s residence (Parkveien 45) at 18:30. In the evening, the Prime Minister will host a dinner for Aung San Suu Kyi at Akershus Castle.

Aung San Suu Kyi will give her Nobel lecture in Oslo City Hall at 13:00 on Saturday 16 June. A public meeting  for the Nobel peace laureate will be held later in the day.

On Sunday 17 June, Aung San Suu Kyi will have talks with Foreign Minister Støre in Oslo before travelling to Bergen. There she will have a meeting with members of the Rafto Foundation and visit the Rafto House. Aung San Suu Kyi will return to Oslo that evening.

In the morning of Monday 18 June, Aung San Suu Kyi will have a meeting with the President of the Storting and the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, before going on to Losby Manor, where she will take part in the Oslo Forum’s annual mediators’ retreat.

A more detailed press programme will be be available at a later date.

As there is limited space at some of the events, not all of the registered participants will be able to take part in all of them. In such cases, press pools will be organised.

Members of the media may apply for accreditation for the whole visit on the following website:

http://tsforum.event123.no/UD/MediaAccreditationAungSanSuuKyi/

Please note that the deadline for applying for accreditation for the visit is Tuesday 12 June at 10:00.

Press contact: Communications Adviser Kjetil Elsebutangen, +47 990 24 903