Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with President Thein Sein today, the first of two key meetings as her election-winning party prepares to take power in a country crippled by decades of military rule. The Nobel laureate's National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a November 8 election with an absolute majority and is due to take office early next year. But crucial to a smooth debut in government would be workable ties with the military, which retains considerable power. Among Suu Kyi's first post-victory moves was to ask for reconciliation talks with reformist ex-general Thein Sein and armed forces supremo Min Aung Hlaing, whose military runs the interior, defence and border affairs ministries under a constitution drafted before the end of its half-century rule.
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