Nobel Prize winner and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded honorary doctorate by the Canberra-based Australian National University.
Suu Kyi receiveda standing ovation as sheaccepted a Doctorate of Letters for her outstanding contributions to the service of society yesterday, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation report.
Suu Kyi, 68, who is here on a six-day trip to Australia, said: тАЬThere are too many who believe that we are almost at the end of the road, this is not so, we are just at the beginning.
тАЬBut we are confident that we will be able to walk the path that we have chosen for ourselves.
тАЬI hope today that the world will help us to realise our dreams, realising dreams is very hard work.тАЭ тАЬI''ve always said that there is no hope without endeavour, what we hope for we must endeavour to achieve through great hard work,тАЭ Suu Kyi said, and hopedAustralia will encourage Myanmar''s democratic journey.
тАЬThere is no end to the quest for democracy,тАЭ she said.
тАЬI hope and pray that Australia will be with us along this journey and that the peoples of Australia will always guard what is unique to them - a beautiful blend of the East and the West and be an example of the possibility of genuine unity and diversity.тАЭ
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