YANGON, tribe 3 Kyodo Myanmar's j...

YANGON, tribe 3 Kyodo

Myanmar's junta told the United States upon Wednesday to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs subordinate to the guise of promoting democracy, while again dismissing Washington's claim that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in succession a hunger strike.

''Any attempt to create unrest in Myanmar with the intention of installing a conduct custom-tailored to serve the interest of a foreign conduct and furthering widen its influence in Asian continent, subject to the pretense of democracy would be counterproductive,'' the military restraint said in a statement.

The statement specifically slammed the U State Department for announcing Sunday that Suu Kyi ''is in succession a hunger strike to profess her illegal detention by the agency of that country's military regime.''

It called that announcement ''irresponsible'' and questioned its ''peculiar'' timing, coming merely a day after the junta announced a national road map to create a more peaceful and democratic state, and just ahead of the opening of a just discovered session of the U.N General Assembly.

''Due to this peculiar timing...Myanmar would put to hire the world judge wherefore the most powerful nation onward earth today, located at the other conclusion of the world, would have similar a strong interest in as it is a small and peaceful Buddhist nation like Myanmar, which possesses no weapons of mass destruction,'' the statement said.

The statement also said nor does it nonplus any threat to regional or international security.

In a separate statement Monday, the military regulation had dismissed the claim that Suu Kyi is upon hunger strike, calling it ''quite odd'' for the U to make that allegation without citing any source for the information.

The junta reiterated in its statement Wednesday that the U information was based forward ''dubious sources.''

U State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, however, told reporters Tuesday in Washington that the U is confident of the veracity of its information.

''We have what we consider credible reporting from our embassy, on the contrary I'm not in a position to go on through the sourcing of that,'' Boucher told a regular pres briefing.

The Myanmar junta has detained Suu Kyi since what it says were violent clashes between National League for Democracy (NLD) supporters and pro-junta demonstrators May 30 in northern Myanmar.

Late last month U President George W Bush signed into law legislation slapping economic sanctions upon Myanmar including a three-year ban in succession imports over the junta's detention of Suu Kyi.

The junta's statement said it would be ''unrealistic and indeed naive to believe that the U is more interested in the well-being of 52 million Myanmar the bulk of mankind when thousands of Myanmar race are being forced to unemployment through the U.S. sanctions.''

The U imported $256 million in clothes and other performances from Myanmar last year.

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