昂山素姬可能三月訪問日本

Last month the NHK News on-line reported the following:

ミャンマーの民主化運動のリーダーで、最大野党を率いるアウン・サン・スー・チー氏はＮＨＫの取材に対し、早ければことし３月にも２７年ぶりに日本を訪問する意向を示しました。

スー・チー氏は１１日、ミャンマーの首都ネピドーの議会でＮＨＫの取材に応じ、日本政府から招待状を受け取ったことを明らかにしたうえで、「今の議会が終了したら日本を訪れる予定だ」と述べ、早ければ、議会が会期末を迎えることし３月にも日本を訪問する意向を示しました。
スー・チー氏は、１９８５年から翌年にかけてのおよそ１０か月間、京都大学東南アジア研究センターの客員研究員として日本に滞在した経験があり、訪日は２７年ぶりとなります。
スー・チー氏が率いる政党によりますと、スー・チー氏は、日本滞在中、政財界の関係者と会談するほか、前の軍事政権時代に日本に亡命したミャンマー人との面会やゆかりの地、京都を訪れることなども検討しているということです。
スー・チー氏は、去年の補欠選挙で下院議員に初当選したあと、最大野党の党首の立場で今のテイン・セイン政権が進める民主化政策に協力する姿勢を示していて、日本としては、スー・チー氏の訪日を通じてミャンマーの民主化への支援を一層アピールする方針です。

(試譯文)

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, as the leader of the democracy movement in Myanmar and commanding the main opposition party, when spoke to the coverage of NHK showed the intention to visit Japan as early as in March this year, being the first time in 27 years.

On the 11th (January) according to the coverage of NHK Ms. Suu Kyi in the Parliament meeting of Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, showed clearly that a letter of invitation was received from the Japanese government. It was said that "it has been decided that Japan would be visited if the present Parliament term is completed", and also showed the intention to visit Japan in March this year at the earliest when the Parliament would reach the end of its session.

Ms. Suu Kyi had the experience of staying in Japan as a visiting researcher of Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the Kyoto University for about 10 months starting from 1985 to the next year, and this visit to Japan would be the first time in 27 years.

According to the political party which Ms. Suu Kyi was commanding, it was said during her stay in Japan she would confer with people related to political and business circles, and also she would meet with the people who had defected from Myanmar to Japan during the previous military regime days, and was considering the location to meet these people and visiting Kyoto etc.

After Ms. Suu Kyi first won a representation seat in the by-election last year, in the position as the leader of the main opposition party, she showed the posture of cooperating with the democratization policy that the Theine Seine government was advancing; as for the visit to Japan, the plan was to appeal for further support towards the democratization of Myanmar through this visit.

Suu Kyi is the icon of Myanmar’s democracy movement. I hope she could also visit mainland China in the not too distant future.