Update | Myanmar parliament will consider allowing Suu Kyi to run for presidency

Myanmar's parliament will consider amending the country's constitution - which currently bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president - ahead of crucial elections next year, an official said.

Suu Kyi is trying to change key sections of Myanmar's charter ahead of 2015 polls that are widely expected to be won by her National League for Democracy, if they are free and fair, after decades of disastrous military rule.

The move to moot constitutional reform was discussed during unprecedented talks between President Thein Sein and his political rivals, including Suu Kyi, as well as top army brass and election officials.

"They agreed to discuss the issue of amending the constitution in parliament, according to the law," presidential spokesman Ye Htut said after the meeting in the capital Naypyidaw.

The NLD has focused on altering a provision in the constitution that ensures the military has a veto on any amendment to the 2008 charter.

It believes revising the clause will open the way for further changes to other constitutional provisions, including the ring-fenced proportion of soldiers in parliament and the effective bar on Suu Kyi becoming president.

As it stands, she is ineligible because of a clause in the charter blocking anyone whose spouse or children are overseas citizens from leading the country. The Nobel laureate's late husband was British, as are her two sons.