Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said her country can learn many things from Bangladesh.
“The programmes Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken for the poor, especially women and children, are an inspiration for me,” she said.
Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, also the chairman of the National League for Democracy, made the remarks when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to meet her at the Myanmarese capital Naypyidaw.
After the meeting, the premier’s Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters.
Suu Kyi said both she and Sheikh Hasina had come across a long way in the struggle for establishing democracy in their respective countries.
The Myanmar opposition leader highly appreciated Sheikh Hasina’s ceaseless strive for development in Bangladesh, especially for women empowerment.
In her turn, Sheikh Hasina said her government had emphasised on increasing savings of the rural women. “We have taken a number of steps to make rural women economically self-reliant.”
Sheikh Hasina is now in Myanmar on a two-day official trip to attend the third Bimstec Summit.