By Rachel Harvey
South East Asia Correspondent, BBC News
**Two senior American envoys are holding talks with the detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon.**Earlier the delegation, led by Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, met Burma’s prime minister.
This was the highest level contact between the two governments for more than a decade.
Aung San Suu Kyi said nothing as she entered the lakeside hotel in Rangoon where the talks are taking place.
But the fact that she was seen in public, and has been allowed to meet such a high-level American delegation is being seen as positive.
High levels
The two American diplomats earlier met Burma’s Prime Minister, Thein Sein in the remote capital city of Naypiyadaw.
Details of those discussions have not been made public.
The visit is the latest evidence of Washington’s new approach towards Burma - a policy described as engagement alongside sanctions.
There is a growing belief in diplomatic circles that isolating the military leadership has not had the desired effect.
The question now is whether face-to-face dialogue is any more productive.