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Aung San Suu Kyi is to Myanmar's new foreign minister in the first civilian government the country has in decades. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party an absolute majority in the general election in November 2015 under her leadership. This after decades of military rule. However, Suu Kyi ineligible to Myanmar's president as she is blocked by the country's constitution, which people with foreign family links from the post - her two sons British citizens. There are unconfirmed rumours that Ms Suu Kyi could also on other roles and the minister for education as well as the energy minister.

Suu Kyi was the sole woman among 15 ministers. An NLD spokesman reporters: "She will be the foreign minister, mainly. If she wants to the duties she has in other ministries with qualified people, she can them." The foreign ministry role her international influence and a seat at Myanmar's influential military-dominated security council. Suu Kyi has it very clear that she will above the president. She has without success in recent weeks to the constitutional barrier to her becoming president. Trevor Wilson, a former ambassador to Myanmar, said: "She wants to at the heart of government. She wants to do it properly and formally and…legally."