Aung San Suu Kyi helped from news conference in Switzerland after vomiting (VIDEO)

Aung San Suu Kyi was helped from a news conference in the Swiss capital Bern on Thursday after vomiting.

The Nobel peace prize winner, 66, had earlier complained of jetlag and tiredness after the long trip from Asia to Europe, Reuters reported.

About 15 minutes into taking questions at a news conference alongside Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, and appearing in pain, she reached for a bag into which she threw up.

Burkhalter had just announced that Switzerland was lifting sanctions against Myanmar, except for military weapons

"I'm so sorry," she reportedly said, before officials escorted her from the room.

Later, a spokesman for the Swiss foreign ministry told the Associated Press that Suu Kyi had recovered enough to attend a reception with government officials, then returned to her room.

"She's just a bit tired," spokesman Jean-Marc Crevoisier reportedly said. "I would be too after the long day she's had."

At the start of the press conference, she had reportedly quipped: "I couldn't adjust to the time, it may have something to do with age, or lack of practice." 

Suu Kyi had earlier Thursday visited the United Nations in Geneva on the first stop of her two-week tour of Europe — her first trip to the continent in 24 years.

Suu Kyi reportedly arrived only shortly before midnight at her hotel in Geneva, when staff erupted in spontaneous applause.

After addressing the International Labour Organization (ILO), she had traveled to Bern by train, MSNBC reported.

According to the AP, while in Europe Suu Kyi is also scheduled to "address both houses of Britain’s parliament, receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford, attend a U2 concert in Dublin and deliver in Oslo the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize that she won in 1991."

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