By ANGELA CHARLTON AP
DAVOS, Switzerland -Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi reached out Friday to the world’s business elite to invest in her isolated, impoverished country — but carefully.

“We yearn to be a part of the global community,” the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said in an audio message to the World Economic Forum, where leading world executives and government officials are gathered in this Swiss Alpine resort.

“We have already missed so many opportunities because of political conflicts in our country over the last 50 years,” she said.

Defense spending in military-run Myanmar, one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, overwhelms spending on education and health, to the detriment of its 55 million people, she said.

She described following the global economic crisis by listening to radio broadcasts from house arrest, where she was held for seven years until her release in November.

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