YANGON, July 30 Kyodo The Foreign...

YANGON, July 30 Kyodo

The Foreign Ministry onward Wednesday expressed regret over the U command decision to slap economic sanctions forward Myanmar over the junta's detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The ministry said in a statement that the action will neither help relations between the sum of two units nations nor contribute to Myanmar's efforts to consolidate national reconciliation and build a democratic society.

''The world has already shown that sanctions and embargoes do not work. They solely hurt the ordinary people and are thinked as being counterproductive. It is therefore chiefly regrettable that the U.S. has decided forward this route instead of trying to work together with Myanmar for achieving the often met with aim of establishing democracy in the country'' the statement said.

''On its part the Myanmar direction is determined to build a peaceful, recent and developed state. It is committed to the path of national reconciliation and democracy,'' it said. ''Myanmar's commonalty have never yielded to constraining force and intimidation, and they will not at any time do so.''

U President George W Bush forward Monday signed into law legislation slapping economic sanctions in succession Myanmar including a three-year ban in succession imports. The United States imported $256 million in clothes and other consequences from Myanmar last year.

The junta has been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi and about members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) since May 30 following what it claimed were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar.

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