Banks also worry about unconfirmed plans to televise the conference.
In addition, unconfirmed reports published by the several newspapers in the region are suggesting that construction of a conventionally powered carrier (CV) may have started.
There are also unconfirmed reports of American and Egyptian special forces training rebels to use sophisticated anti-tank weapons covertly brought over from Egypt.
This discovery, which had until now been unconfirmed in the reptile world, means that "these lizards have a way of distinguishing sister from homologous chromosomes, " Baumann says.
Although it remains unconfirmed whether Than Shwe has indeed taken the leap into civilian status, most veteran political observers said the news came as no surprise.
There were also unconfirmed reports of American B-2 "stealth" bombers hitting a major Libyan airfield.