21.   He is now a private consultant seeking to promote business deals in Burma and other Asian countries, and favors what he calls constructive engagement.

22.   Mrs. Suu Kyi has said since her release there is no evidence that constructive engagement has helped bring change to Burma.

23.   Suu Kyi, who was released last July after six years of house arrest without trial, has denounced the constructive engagement approach.

24.   The Association of Southeast Asian Nations opted for constructive engagement with Burma despite mass arrests of opposition activists, the group said.

25.   The more difficult, but moral path is constructive engagement, he said.

26.   The US government and US businesses have an enlightened self-interest in continuing to develop a constructive engagement with Thailand.

27.   To initiate this process of constructive engagement we have already metinformally with several stockbroking companies, merchant banks andindustry representatives.

28.   Trade can be the first step in a process of constructive engagement that leads to further dialogue and action on social and human rights.

29.   Under the policy of constructive engagement, the Southeast Asian states had wanted Burma as a full member by next year.

30.   From bitter experience, most donor governments are reluctant to adopt a confrontational approach towards the communist authorities, arguing that constructive engagement pays more dividends.