Workers' Party Chairman Sylvia Lim has accepted a nomination to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program run by the US State Department from July 18 to August 7, 2006.

During her visit to the US, she will join 24 civil servants, politicians and journalists from Africa, Latin and South America and the Middle East to study "Citizen Participation in a Democracy".

She will travel to Washington DC, Santa Fe (New Mexico) and Minneapolis (Minnesota) for discussions on the institutions of state, the role of lobby groups and the history and dynamics of American policy-making.