MS. PERINO: We do know that sanctions can have an impact, and they help curtail economic activity and can further isolate the junta, which is part of getting them to recognize that they need to open up and allow the democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to be able to meet with the leaders that they said that they would allow her to do. And it's been a halting progress. They say that they're going to do things that they don't follow up on. And so the President is going to authorize these sanctions today.
And remember, just last week, Mrs. Bush, who was up in New York, did talk to President Torrijos, who is now chairing this month the Security Council at the United Nations, and she pressed him to do more, and he said he would bring it up. Goyal.
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