Burma's President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hold their second round of talks on Wednesday ahead of the Nobel laureate's swearing in as a member of parliament later this month.
The first meeting between the two leaders was held in August last year. Details of the landmark encounter were not disclosed, though it set the pace for significant reforms, including the re-registration of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party and the release of political prisoners.
Aung San Suu Kyi said then that Thein Sein was "honest and sincere" and that she was "happy and satisfied" with the talks.
She also said that they could work together for the nation's benefit.
Thein Sein's second meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, who is fresh from an April 1 election victory that positioned the NLD as the main opposition party in parliament, will also be a private affair and be held just before noon at the presidential palace in Burma's capital Naypyidaw, according to her security officer, Khun Thar Myint.
He declined to state the issues that would be discussed.
"That I cannot tell. Some I know, some I don't, but I can't tell you about that," he told RFA when asked about expected topics that would be taken up by the two leaders.
A lunch will be hosted by the president's family after the meeting, during which government ministers will be present, he said.
He said that he and Industry Minister Soe Thein had been making preparations for the meeting over the last couple of days. Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to fly to the capital from her lakeside residence in Rangoon.
Oath
There has been speculation that the government and the NLD are negotiating on the wording of an oath statement to be read out by the newly elected legislators from the party, including Aung San Suu Kyi.
Some said the NLD wants the oath amended to require political parties to "respect and obey" the 2008 constitution, instead of "preserve and protect" it.
Khun Thar Myint declined to comment on the matter.
The meeting between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi comes 10 days after the 66-year-old democracy icon won a seat in parliament for the first time in April 1 by-elections that were largely lauded as a step towards democracy by the international community.
She will take her seat in parliament on April 23, her party said on Monday.
The pro-democracy leader had spent 15 of the past 22 years under house arrest and was released just after general elections in November 2010 which were won by the military's political proxies.
The NLD won 43 of 45 available seats in the legislature in the April 1 elections, becoming the main opposition force in a national parliament dominated by the military and its political allies.
The NLD had swept to a landslide election victory in 1990, when Suu Kyi was under house arrest, but the junta never recognized the result.
The United States announced last week it would ease selected sanctions, including restrictions on investment to Burma, while British Prime Minister David Cameron is due to visit the country this week on the first trip by a top Western leader since Burma's decades of military rule ended last year.
Reported by Khin Maung Soe for RFA's Burmese service. Translated by Khin May Zaw. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai.