THE opposition is prepared to increase pressure on the junta to try to force it to engage in negotiations about political reform, according to diplomats and observers in the Burmese capital.
Tin Oo, a senior leader of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), said the opposition was confident the ruling generals would eventually talk to them.
'The question is not whether, but when. If the regime leaves it too long everything will become much more difficult,' said Mr Tin Oo.
The opposition hopes to meet the regime before the controversial constitutional convention restarts on November 28.
They fear that if the junta's rigged convention is allowed to enshrine the military's domination of politics, and the exclusion of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi from high office, then subsequent talks may have little significance.
This is likely to have been the strategy of the State Law and Order Restoration Council, as the junta styles itself, in the hope that the pro-democracy activist simply fades away as a political force.