Aung San Suu Kyi attends Union Day event for ethnic minorities

Myanmar President Thein Sein during a dinner to mark Union Day Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi offered Tuesday to help negotiate an end to conflicts between the government and the country’s ethnic minority groups, a challenge the country’s president has called essential to building democracy. Union Day marks when her late father Gen. Aung San signed a 1947 agreement with leaders of the country’s ethnic minorities to gain independence from Britain together.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is greeted by ethnic group representatives during a dinner to mark Union Day Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

Myanmar Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is greeted by representatives of national races during a dinner to mark Union Day, Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. <AP Photo/Khin Maung Win>