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In the United States, Bush said "enormous international pressure" was needed to make it clear to the former Burma's generals that they would be completely isolated if they did not bring freedom and democracy to the country.
He threatened fresh sanctions on Burma and suggested impatience with the international response to its crackdown.
"Sometimes international bodies are non-consequential. That is, they're good talking but there's not a consequence. At some point there has to be consequences," Bush told an audience in Rogers, Arkansas.
Washington imposed new sanctions last month, toughening measures that had been in place for years but had forced little change, and has been pressing for stronger U.N. action.
But, taking an incentives approach, Britain's Brown said on Monday he would be writing to world leaders to canvass support for a package of economic support measures for Burma.
In Bangkok, Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont proposed a U.N.-backed regional forum on Burma, bringing together Southeast Asia plus India and China, the two countries with perhaps the greatest potential influence on the junta.
But such a process might complicate matters, said Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid, who met U.N special envoy Ibrahim Gambari in Kuala Lumpur on the second stop of a regional tour to drum up support for a coordinated diplomatic front.
"If there is any other talk about other mechanisms to be used I think it may complicate the current momentum that has been achieved," Syed Hamid told reporters in the Malaysian capital.
"I think Gambari has gone this far and I think under very difficult circumstances. We need to continue his work," he said, adding, "We want to see a quick re-entry of Ibrahim Gambari to Burma."
Gambari is slated to return to Burma in November, but he said earlier on he hoped his Asia tour would demonstrate such a united regional front that he might be granted a visa sooner.
