Myanmar official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar Saturday carried a long article criticizing the latest movement of the United States concerning on its demand for formal discussion of Myanmar issue at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

The U.S. Ambassador to UN John Bolton submitted a letter to the UNSC on September 1, 2006, saying that as Myanmar's situation reached the level of posing a threat to international peace and security, a senior official of UN Secretariat should explain Myanmar's conditions for the matter to be discussed formally at the UNSC, the paper said.

The paper stated that "the obvious thing is that the demand of the U.S. ambassador is nothing more than a repeated political ploy to apply pressure on Myanmar while ignoring all the objective developments and changes taking place in the country".

"For more than a decade the successive U.S. Administration have been trying to dominate Myanmar politically, economically and socially," it emphasized, adding that "Beginning late September 1988, the US government has downgraded the country's political, economic and social relations with Myanmar with the intention of Americanizing her and installing a puppet government, with democracy and human rights as fine excuses".

The paper cited the government's great achievements in the fields of national reconciliation with national race armed groups, narcotic drugs control and combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

Myanmar's neighboring countries as well as the countries of Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) welcomed the success of UN Under-Secretary- General Gambari's visit to Myanmar in May this year, it said, adding that the 116-member NAM sent letters to all UNSC member nations stating that Myanmar was not a threat at all to international peace and security.

The U.S. accusations are not based on precise and accurate facts and data, but using false ones which were sent by outlawed anti-government organizations abroad, self-seekers under the name of refugees, and insurgents and underground elements inside the nation, it said.

Some political parties inside the nation including the National League for Democracy and certain ex-students instead of lending a constructive hand to the government in building a peaceful, modern and developed discipline-flourishing democratic state, are trying to grab power through short cut, it criticized.

"Myanmar's internal affairs do not call for the intervention of the UNSC, and such unnecessary attempts are the very threats to already-gained peace, stability, prevalence of law and order, national solidarity, all-round development and democratic transition of Myanmar as well as to regional and international peace and security," it stressed.

Source: Xinhua