Nehginpao Kipgen is Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University.
The February 17th meeting was the third between Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing since the National League for Democracy (NLD)'s electoral victory in November last year.
PRESIDENT Thein Sein, who is a former military leader himself, declared a three-month state of emergency in the Kokang self-administered zone in the northern part of Shan state, which shares border with China's Yunnan province.