STORY: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Tuesday (June 26) during the last leg of her European tour.<br/> <br />Hollande welcomed the 67-year-old Nobel Peace laureate with full head of state honors as she brings to an end a 17-day tour that would have been unimaginable 19 months ago, when an authoritarian junta ruled Myanmar and confined her to her home.<br/> <br />After nearly half a century of direct military rule in Myanmar, in 2010 the ruling junta gave way to a quasi-civilian government stuffed with former generals, and since then current President Thein Sein has startled the world with his appetite for reforms.<br/> <br />Suu Kyi said efforts must be made for the reform process to stay on track and that she believed Thein Sein was sincere in his commitments.<br/> <br />"We have to work very hard to make sure that the reform process stays on course. I do not know how sincere all those people are who are involved in the reform process, I cannot speak for everyone of them. I believe that the president is sincere and I believe that he is a sincere man. But I cannot speak for everybody in the government," Suu Kyi said.<br/> <br />Hollande said France would do everything to support reform in Myanmar.
