New Delhi: Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed optimism that the government wants political reform.
On Friday, Suu Kyi said after her second meeting with officials that the military rulers have the will for national reconciliation.
For the first time in more than three years, Suu Kyi was also allowed to meet senior members of her National League for Democracy.
At the two-hour meeting, she said the generals were "serious and really willing to work for national reconciliation".
Immediately before and after talks with her political allies, Suu Kyi met with Aung Kyi, the general appointed as the "minister for relations" with the opposition leader, according to the New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
The regime's tightly controlled newspapers published a photograph of Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi, smiling and shaking hands at a government guest house - an indication the government was keen to publicise the meeting even though it has not commented on what was discussed.
It was the third time in a month that Suu Kyi's image has appeared in state-controlled media, which refused for years to print her picture or even refer to her by name.
The junta, which came under renewed international pressure after it crushed pro-democracy demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in September, allowed Suu Kyi to meet her party's officials after the latest in a series of visits by UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari.
(With inputs from agencies)
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