Summary: "China will consider supporting a formal briefing of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by Special Envoy Gambari (reftel), MFA Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Liang Jianjun told us September 10. Liang said the MFA had conveyed to the Burmese government Gambari?s request to travel twice to Burma and that the Burmese were receptive to a possible trip after September 20. China?s Ambassador in Burma has conveyed to senior Burmese officials China?s desire that Rangoon resolve the ongoing crisis "in the proper way." Liang described Burma?s National Convention as a positive political development. In any case, Liang said, encouragement and engagement, not pressure and sanctions, are the best way to move Burma toward political and economic reform." End Summary.