Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has said that she was encouraged by her first meeting with the country's new civilian President. The talks between Suu Kyi and one of the members of the junta who kept her locked up for most of the past twenty years are the latest contact between the government and its staunch critic Suu Kyi. The present regime came to power in March after a widely condemned election marred by the absence of Suu Kyi and her party.