Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is holding her first formal meeting with a minister of the army-backed civilian government.
The agenda for the talks - with labour minister Aung Kyi - was not disclosed.Aung San Suu Kyi met him several times during her years under house arrest before she was released last November.
Aung San Suu Kyi was excluded from the election held by the military rulers that month, and her political supporters boycotted it.
The talks are taking place at a state guesthouse in Burma's main city of Rangoon.
The BBC's South East Asia correspondent Rachel Harvey says the significance of the meeting lies in its timing.
It comes less than a month after the Burmese government warned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party to halt all political activities.
Aung San Suu Kyi has also recently tested the limits of her freedom by conducting a private visit to the temple city of Bagan.
News of the meeting leaked out after the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for "concrete measurable progress" by the Burmese government, at regional security talks held in Bali on Saturday. The true test of Aung San Suu Kyi's talks with the new government will be to see if anything substantive emerges - or whether it turns out to be another carefully choreographed piece of window-dressing much in the manner of the Burma of old, our correspondent says.
Aung San Suu Kyi has said she plans to travel to the countryside to meet her supporters. But a recent commentary in a state-run newspaper warned that such a move could cause turmoil.
Her National League for Democracy party won a resounding victory in Burma's elections in 1990, but was kept from power by the military junta.
In the first elections held since then, in November 2010, military-backed parties won by far the largest number of seats.
The ruling generals said the poll marked a transition to democracy, but opposition groups and Western nations condemned it as a sham.
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