Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda has expressed dissatisfaction with a U.S. draft resolution on Myanmar, which called Myanmar a threat to international security and peace, a news report said in Jakarta Saturday.

"The current draft has a nuance of accusation of human rights violations and slow progress toward democracy. We should find more effective ways (than issuing a resolution) to help overcome the problems in Myanmar," he was quoted by English daily The Jakarta Post as saying.

The U.S. State Department's principal deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, James B. Warlick, who visited Indonesia in December, said the problems in Myanmar were affecting its neighbors.

"We put Burma (Myanmar) on the agenda of the Security Council because it is not just an internal issue for the Burmese but it is an issue of peace and security to the region," Warlick said.

Hassan said that although Myanmar faced problems relating to ethnic insurgencies in its own territory that had caused many refugees to flee to neighboring countries such as Thailand and Bangladesh, they were domestic problems and not yet a threat to security in the region, let alone the world.

Indonesia must also take into account the fact that Myanmar is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he added.

The UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss the draft in the next few weeks.

The Indonesian foreign ministry's new director for international security and disarmament affairs, Desra Percaya, said the draft did not include sanctions against Myanmar.

"We will always regard sanctions as a last resort since we believe sanctions will not produce anything but misery for the people. We should attempt alternative methods first," he said.

Source: Xinhua