(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-11-13 20:46

China had played and would continue to play a constructive role on the Myanmar issue, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao on Tuesday.

Liu made the remarks at a regular press conference Tuesday afternoon.

China always supported the mediation efforts by the UN secretary general and his special envoy and would sincerely like to see a peaceful, stable, democratic and developing Myanmar, Liu said.

Liu said it should be clearly understood that the Myanmar issue was very complicated and could not be thoroughly resolved through one or two rounds of mediation.

On the upcoming 11th meeting among leaders from the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Liu said China would respect the views of related countries on whether to discuss the Myanmar issue at the meeting, stressing that the issue was essentially the internal affairs of Myanmar itself.

Myanmar's peace, stability, democracy, development and progress was in accord with the interests of China, the region at large, and in particular, those of the ASEAN countries, Liu said.

"China has no self-interest on the issue", Liu said.