China on Wednesday said the international community should create a favored external environment for Myanmar to properly handle its internal differences.

The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on the Myanmar situation on Tuesday, following Myanmar's declaration of the one-year state of emergency and the handover of the state power to the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing on Monday. 

Speaking of the closed-door meeting, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said that China hopes all actions taken by the UN Security Council would facilitate the political and social stability of Myanmar and the peaceful settlement of the problem.

Wang stressed that China, as a friendly neighbor of Myanmar, hopes all sides in Myanmar will properly handle their differences and prioritize people's willingness and interests.

"We hope that all sides in Myanmar will properly handle their differences under the constitutional and legal framework and maintain political and social stability," Wang said.

The last Security Council discussion on Myanmar was in September 2020, before the general elections in the country.

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Myanmar political leaders, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, regional and state ministers, and some central executive committee members of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), were detained by the military in the early hours of Monday.

The military had demanded the postponement of new parliamentary sessions, claiming that there was massive voting fraud in the November 2020 general elections, in which the NLD won the majority of seats in both houses of parliament.

(With input from Xinhua)