Bangkok , Thailand ( CNN ) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip outside the country in more than two decades when she visits Thailand next week to attend a regional conference , a spokesman for her party said Thursday . Suu Kyi , a pro-democracy campaigner who endured years of house arrest under Myanmar 's military rulers , will travel to the Thai capital of Bangkok on Monday where she will participate in the World Economic Forum on East Asia , said Nyan Win , a spokesman for the National League for Democracy . The visit to Bangkok comes ahead of a longer trip to Europe next month during which Suu Kyi will make a series of key addresses , including the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize that she was prevented from collecting in 1991 because she was in detention . Nyan Win and the organizers of the World Economic Forum declined to give more information about what part Suu Kyi would play at the Bangkok conference . President Thein Sein of Myanmar , the former military official whose civilian government has instituted many of the country 's recent political reforms , is also scheduled to attend the forum . Suu Kyi and 33 other newly elected members of her party took up their seats in the Myanmar parliament at the start of this month , a historic step for the country 's progress toward democracy . In the past 12 months , Thein Sein 's government has pardoned hundreds of political prisoners , secured a cease-fire with Karen rebels and agreed to negotiate with other ethnic rebel groups . Those steps , as well as the by-elections last month where the NLD won nearly every seat it contested , have been applauded by the United States , European Union and other governments . They have responded by easing sanctions on Myanmar , which is also known as Burma . Suu Kyi 's first speaking engagement in Europe next month is an address at a conference in Geneva , Switzerland , organized by the International Labor Organization on June 14 . Then on June 16 , she will deliver her long delayed Nobel acceptance speech in Oslo , Norway . After that , she will travel to Britain , the former colonial ruler of Myanmar and the country where Suu Kyi received her university education . While there , she will address both houses of the British parliament on June 21 , a rare honor for foreign dignitaries . The relatively successful elections and Suu Kyi 's freedom to travel contrast starkly with the situation in the country at the start of the 1990s . Suu Kyi led her party to a landslide victory in 1990 , the previous time Myanmar had held multiparty elections . But the military junta ignored the results and kept her under house arrest . Myanmar 's economy stagnated and its people lived under repressive rule until the military began to allow the fledgling reforms of the past two years . The progress the country has experienced recently in nonetheless qualified by ongoing violence between government forces and some ethnic rebels , reports of voting irregularities in the by-elections last month and the military-backed ruling group 's overwhelming control of parliament . The U.N. secretary-general , Ban Ki-moon , noted ahead of a visit to the country last month that Myanmar 's `` fresh start is still fragile . '' CNN 's Jethro Mullen contributed to this report .
Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Europe next month to make several speeches . She will also travel to Thailand next week for a regional conference . It will be her first trip abroad since she was released from years of house arrest . Western governments have eased sanctions on Myanmar in response to recent reforms .