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President
Thein Sein meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw on December 2, 2015 ©Myanmar
News Agency (Myanmar News Agency/AFP)
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Myanmar's democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks Wednesday with the president and military
chief about the handover of power, the first such discussions since her
opposition party's election triumph. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD)
party won nearly 80 percent of contested seats in a November 8 election that
appears set to end the military's decades-long chokehold on the country.
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Senior
General Min Aung Hlaing (L), Myanmar Commander In-Chief shakes hands with
National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi before their
meeting in Naypyidaw on December 2, 2015 ©Soe Zeya Tun (Pool/AFP)
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Immediately
after the poll she had appealed for "national reconciliation" talks
with President Thein Sein and the powerful army chief.
