(Mizzima) — In a surprise meeting, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a high-level senior government official met on Monday, in talks that they described as “productive” and “constructive.”
It was Suu Kyi’s first official governmental meeting since her release last year from seven years of house arrest.
The meeting lasted about 70 minutes and took place at the government guesthouse in Rangoon.
Suu Kyi and Labor and Social Welfare Minister Aung Kyi later met with reporters and answered a few questions, noting that the meeting had been constructive and cordial and that they had positive expectations.
Both sides said they were pleased and plan to meet again.
A retired major general who was appointed "relations minister" in October 2007, Aung Kyi has met several times with Suu Kyi, and they are said to have a good relationship.
He took his present post under the newly elected but military-dominated government that came to power earlier this year. There was no mention of an agenda.
