09/19/2012
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"All parties have good reasons to make concessions. None of them can afford to watch Burma descend further into isolation and desperation and wait to act until another generation of its people is lost."
"We haven't had an ambassador to Burma since 1990, how do you feel about this in terms of affecting your ability to engage the Government and the diplomatic representatives of other countries in Burma?"
"We have urged Burma's senior leadership to abide by its own commitment to fully comply with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874."
"I think they realize, as we have, as I said in my statement, that pure engagement, pure pressure is not necessarily getting the results we want."