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Using her veto power for the fifth time ever, China voted against a US-drafted Security Council resolution which called on Myanmar to stop persecution of opposition groups. The negative votes by China and Russia defeated the resolution. The Chinese UN Ambassador Wang Guangya explained that the Myanmar question is essentially its domestic affair. A Foreign Ministry spokesman later said that the situation in Myanmar has not posed threat to regional and international peace and security. "If the UN Security Council passed a resolution on the Myanmar issue, it would go beyond the responsibilities of the Security Council laid out in the UN Charter and harm the role and authority of the Security Council," he said.