"...International attitudes to Myanmar will continue to face difficulty in gaining acceptance by the Myanmar government until the international community makes it clear with a single voice that the issues surrounding Myanmar are its legitimate concern. Myanmar?s leadership is adept at identifying rifts in international opinion that work to its advantage, and will not stop trying to deflect pressure on it to change policies. Moreover, the capacity of the current Myanmar military leadership to stand stubbornly in the face of international opinion should not be underestimated. This makes it all the more necessary for the international community, led by the United Nations, to draw the Myanmar government into a more focused and managed reconciliation process than has hitherto been the case, with sufficient incentives to persuade the current military leadership to participate fully in such a process. Ultimately, however, success can be achieved only if Myanmar believes that it ‘owns? the process, that it has not been imposed from the outside..."