YANGON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon Thursday on a three-day official visit to Thailand at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, sources with the Foreign Ministry said.
Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to meet firstly with Myanmar migrant workers at Talay Thai market, the largest seafood market located in Samut Sakhon province, later on the day after her arrival, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry.
On Friday, she will deliver a speech titled " Myanmar, ASEAN and the World; The Way Forward", to Thai university students and then meet with Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Aung San Suu Kyi will also visit the temporary shelter for Myanmar displaced persons in Ratchaburi province on Saturday and concluded her trip on Saturday evening, the sources added.
Suu Kyi's trip came more than a month after Thai Prime Minister' s special envoy Don Pramudwinai, who is also Foreign Minister, visited the Myanmar capital on May 8-9, during which the two countries vowed to promote bilateral relations and economic cooperation in all sectors including resolvement of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand, development of Dawei Special Economic Zone and cooperation in development of border areas.
There are 1.59 million registered Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand.