YANGON - A Myanmar parliamentary delegation, led by Parliament Speaker U Khin Aung Myint, will head for Vientiane, Laos to attend an official ceremony in early October to become a full-fledged member of Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP), official media reported Tuesday.

Myanmar would become a member in the seventh meeting of Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership slated for Oct 2 to 4 in the Lao capital.

The aim of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) is to promote understanding between Asian and European countries and peoples, to foster relations among parliaments, exchanging views, to work as a forum, to support the ASEM  and parliaments in Asia and Europe and actively participate in their parliamentary issues at the ASEM summits, U Khin Aung Myint was quoted as saying.