Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Military-ruled Myanmar said Wednesday a UN resolution against the junta would “destroy the peace” and accused the Security Council of trying to interfere in its domestic affairs.

“The situation in Myanmar is something that does not need to be handled by the Security Council,” the national police chief, Brigadier General Khin Yee told reporters.

“On the contrary,” he said, the Security Council was being used “to interfere in the internal affairs of Myanmar and destroy the peace”.

“Only then will it become a threat to peace and security in the region, as well as to the international community as a whole,” he added.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said Monday he would soon introduce a draft Security Council resolution lambasting Myanmar’s military junta as a threat to regional peace and security, but without threatening UN sanctions.

The US envoy said Yangon’s policies, including human rights violations and political repression, “continue to contribute to instability in the region and therefore in our view constitute a threat to international peace and security”.

Bolton has lobbied hard to put the Myanmar issue on the agenda of the 15-member council, despite strong opposition from China, an ally of the regime.

The US has singled out the flow of migrants out of Myanmar, along with the regime’s failure to crack down on trafficking in people and illicit drugs.

Khin Yee accused the United Nations of “turning a blind eye to the country’s achievements in eliminating drugs, and to fully realize the actual evolution of Myanmar’s undertaking to eliminate narcotic drugs”.

“We firmly believe that the problem of drug abuse is a great threat to our entire population of Myanmar,” he told a press conference in the new administrative capital, Naypyidaw, in the jungles of central Myanmar.

With UN help, Myanmar has made strides in eradicating opium production in recent years, but at the same time, trafficking in methamphetamines has soared.

Washington has already imposed investment and trade bans on Myanmar in protest at the regime’s dismal human rights record and refusal to adopt democratic reforms.

US President George W. Bush told key Southeast Asian leaders earlier this month, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam, that the situation in Myanmar was “totally unacceptable”.