YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, received her first passport in 24 years on Tuesday ahead of a planned trip to Norway and Britain.

An aide to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, Htin Kyaw, said the passport was received from the Home Ministry.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi applied for the passport after recent political changes that culminated in her election to Parliament last month. Last year, a long-ruling military junta handed over power to an elected, nominally civilian government. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which won 43 seats in the April by-elections, will lead the small opposition bloc.

The passport is valid for three years. She has not had one since she returned to Myanmar from Britain in 1988 to take care of her ailing mother, and was required by law then to hand it in.

After becoming leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, she was put under house arrest for 15 of the next 22 years of military rule. Her confinement kept her from attending the ceremony in Norway at which she was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. She plans to visit the country in June.