"...I would like to state from the onset that I am very disappointed that a valuable opportunity to help the people of Burma was wasted. Robert Taylor and Morten Pedersen could have seriously explored policy options and recommended innovative ways to support the reconciliation process in Burma. Instead, the report has repeated old arguments against sanctions and have needlessly incited a controversy. This controversy has the potential to derail the focus of the meeting, namely, how to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Burma. If this happened, the losers would be the people of Burma..."