Aung San Suu Kyi delivers speech at Westminister Hall

Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has addressed both houses of Britain's Parliament. She expressed hope that her country can learn from the role model of parliamentary democracy.Seven hundred  members of both Houses of Parliament gathered at Westminster Hall on Thursday.

The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, welcomed her, noting that she is the first figure other than a head of state and the first woman from abroad to deliver a speech there.

 Aung San Suu Kyi said she would ask Britain to consider what it can do to help build the sound institutions needed to build a nascent parliamentary democracy.

She was sworn in as a member of Myanmar's parliament in May. Burma is on path of  reforms but a quarter of parliamentary seats are still secured for the military.