Aung San Suu Kyi visits Europe

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi continues her tour of Europe after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her 21 years ago.

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June 21, 2012

British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, greets Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi outside 10 Downing Street in London. Aung San Suu Kyi will on Thursday address both houses of the British parliament — a rare honor bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since World War II. Suu Kyi will follow in the footsteps of U.S. President Obama and Pope Benedict XVI when she speaks in the 11th-century Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliament complex.

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June 21, 2012

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, left, talks with Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, right, as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, (center back) stands behind after planting a tree at Clarence House in London. Suu Kyi met British heir to the throne Prince Charles on June 21 ahead of her historic address to both houses of parliament.

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June 21, 2012

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi , center, walks out into the grounds with Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, left, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, right, to plant a tree at Clarence House in London.

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June 21, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with British Foreign Secretary William Hague as she arrives for a meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

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June 20, 2012

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, speaks at the Bodleian Libraries with other participants in a ceremony in which she received an honorary degree at England’s Oxford University. Suu Kyi was awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford, where she studied and brought up the family she would later leave behind.

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June 20, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs the book in the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

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June 20, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, second right, arrives in a procession at an award ceremony at Oxford University, Oxford, England.

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June 20, 2012

The Encaenia procession enters the Bodleian Libraries as Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (not seen) arrives before receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University, northwest of London.

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June 19, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, poses for photos with old friends during a reception at Oxford University in southern England.

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June 19, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, speaks with old friends during a reception at Oxford University, southern England.

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June 19, 2012

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, right, walks with Andrew Dilnot, principal of St. Hugh's College of the Oxford University, as she arrives at a reception in Oxford, northwest of London. Aung San Suu Kyi began an emotional return to Britain Tuesday, visiting her former home of Oxford and speaking about the “sacrifice” her sons and late husband were forced to make.

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June 19, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, second from right, poses with the Chancellor of Oxford University, Chris Patten, right, the principal of St. Hugh's College, Andrew Dilnot, left, and the vice chancellor of Oxford University, Andrew Hamilton, in the grounds outside the Bodleian Library in Oxford, southern England.

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June 19, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi sits in a studio during her visit to the BBC World Service in London.

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June 18, 2012

Irish singer Bono hands Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award in Dublin. The award was made in 2009, and this was the first opportunity for Kyi to get the award because of her house arrest in Burma.

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June 18, 2012

British actor Sir Roger Moore arrives at a ceremony for Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Dublin.

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June 18, 2012

People look on as Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks on stage after she received the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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June 18, 2012

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she holds a portrait that was presented to her by a member of the Burmese community, left, after she received the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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June 18, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi, center, smiles as she holds a birthday cake presented to her after a ceremony where she received the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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June 18, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she holds a certificate after she received the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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June 18, 2012

Aung San Suu Ky walks with Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins during a visit to his official residence in Dublin.

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June 16, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visits the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.

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June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest. She said full political freedom in her country, which was renamed Myanmar by the ruling junta, was still a long way off.

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June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland.

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June 16, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs a book at the Nobel Institute after a meeting with the Norwegian Nobel Committee members in Oslo.

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June 16, 2012

Nobel 1991 Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and Norwegian Nobel Committee Deputy Chairman Kaci Kullmann Five lead a procession at Oslo's City Hall.

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June 16, 2012

Thorbjoern Jagland, left, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, joins others in applaud after Aung San Suu Kyi, center, delivered her Nobel lecture in Oslo.

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June 16, 2012

Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and Norwegian Nobel Committee Deputy Chairman Kaci Kullmann Five at Oslo City Hall.

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June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi holds the script of her Nobel lecture in Oslo.

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June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is greeted by Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo City Hall.

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June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a Nobel lecture at Oslo City Hall.

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June 14, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi laughs during a news conference at the annual meeting of the International Labor Organization in Geneva. Suu Kyi said that investment in her country should strengthen its nascent process of democratization.

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June 14, 2012

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi gives a speech at the International Labor Organization’s annual conference at the United Nations office in Geneva. It is Suu Kyi’s her first trip to Europe since 1988. She will give a speech in Oslo to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago.

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June 14, 2012

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, sits next to International Labor Organization Director General Juan Somavia before she delivers a speech during the last day of the 101st session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva. Suu Kyi will also visit Norway, Britain, France and Ireland on her more than two week tour of Europe.

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June 14, 2012

Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, right, arrives with International Labor Organization Director General Juan Somavia during the 101st International Labor Organization Conference in Geneva.

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June 14, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, waves as she arrives at the 101st International Labor Organization Conference in Geneva.

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June 14, 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with Swiss apprentices on the train between Geneva and Bern, Switzerland.

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