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Jamia Milia to confer doctorate on Aung San
Suu Kyi
Monday January 30, 2012 03:29:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Recognising her over two-decade fight for democracy in Myanmar,
Delhi's Jamia Milia Islamia will confer an honorary doctorate
degree on her very soon.
This was announced by Jamia Milia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najeeb
Jung at a seminar on "Myanmar: Bridging South and Southeast Asia"
organised by the university's Academy of International Studies
along with Yangon-based think-tank Tampadipa Institute here.
"We at Jamia Milia Islamia want to hold a special convention for
conferring an honorary doctorate on Aung San Suu Kyi," Jung said
during his welcome address at the seminar.
"Once we get to meet Suu Kyi, we will convey to her our intent to
confer her the doctorate. If she accepts and and finds time to
visit us here, we will hold the special convocation to confer her
the doctorate," he said.
Jung also noted that he wanted Jamia Milia Islamia to become a
repository of knowledge and information on Myanmar in the near
future so that it became the reference point for all scholars
wanting to study the neighbouring country.
He also noted that this was the third such Myanmar-related event
that his university is organising since November 2010, when
Myanmar held its first democratic elections in two decades.
In that election, the Union Solidarity and Development Party of
erstwhile military rulers won nearly 80 percent of the seats to
Myanmar parliament and Thein Sein formed the government as the
country's civilian president in March 2011.
Thein Sein has visited India, in his first state visit here, in
October 2011 when the bilateral ties of the two nations got a
boost.
Suu Kyi's party National League for Democracy did not participate
in the November 2010 elections.
But after the civilian government took over and talks between her
and the president, her party has now registered itself with the
election commission and decided to contest the parliamentary
bye-polls to be held on April 1.
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