AUNG SAN SUU KYI TO ADDRESS THE ILOS INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

For immediate release: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 (ROAP/12/14)

Media Advisory

GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi - General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar - will attend the 101st International Labour Conference. Ms Suu Kyi has accepted the invitation of ILO Director-General Juan Somavia to address the plenary of the conference on the morning of 14 June. The 101st session of the International Labour Conference will be held in Geneva from 30 May to 15 June. It will bring together more than 4,000 government, union and employer delegates from the ILOs 183 Member States. For more information on the International Labour Conference, please visit: www.ilo.org/ilc For media interested in covering the conference, please check the media accreditation information note. For more information please contact, Sophy Fisher Senior Communications & Public Information Officer ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok) fisher@ilo.org +662 (0) 2288 2482

Krisdaporn Singhaseni Information Officer ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok) krisdaporn@ilo.org T: +662 (0) 2288 1664

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