YANGON, May 6 Kyodo National Leag...

YANGON, May 6 Kyodo

National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon for Kachin forward Tuesday to inspect the NLD organization in Myanmar's in the greatest degree northerly state.

Accompanied by way of Vice Chairman Tin Oo and 18 young NLD members, Suu Kyi joined in a escort of three microbuses for the state capital Myitkyina, 950 kilometers north of Yangon. The cluster will make an overnight stop in Mandalay onward the way to Kachin.

''(Suu Kyi) will render free of access several party branch offices...She has reopen nearly 100 branch party offices in the same manner far. The journey will take about a month'' NLD spokesman U Lwin said in Yangon.

Kachin will be the sixth of the seven ethnic minority states in Myanmar the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate has visited since her release from house arrest forward May 6 last year.

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