CORDIAL MEETING In this photograph taken and released by the Myanmar News Agency (MNA) on December 2, Myanmar President Thein Sein (L) shakes hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader and National League for Democracy (NLD) party chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi (R) ahead of their meeting in Naypyidaw on Wednesday. The two leaders began talks on December 2 on the handover of power nearly a month after Suu Kyi’s opposition party cleaned up at the polls. AFP PHOTO
CORDIAL MEETING
In this photograph taken and released by the Myanmar News Agency (MNA) on December 2, Myanmar President Thein Sein (L) shakes hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader and National League for Democracy (NLD) party chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi (R) ahead of their meeting in Naypyidaw on Wednesday. The two leaders began talks on December 2 on the handover of power nearly a month after Suu Kyi’s opposition party cleaned up at the polls. AFP PHOTO

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held “warm and open” talks with the president on the transfer of power from the military establishment, a minister said Wednesday, nearly a month after her opposition party cleaned up at the polls.

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