Thu Oct 4, 9:57 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS - China and Russia ruled out any Security Council action on Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy briefed the U.N. chief on his mission to the strife-torn nation.

Ibrahim Gambari met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and senior U.N. officials on his four-day visit to Myanmar soon after he arrived in New York on Thursday. He was scheduled to brief the U.N. Security Council at an open meeting Friday.

"You must be very tired — all the way from Singapore!" the secretary-general told his envoy before photographers were ushered out of his office. Details of the near hour-long meeting were not disclosed.

Gambari's trip to the Southeast Asian nation came after troops quelled mass pro-democracy protests with gunfire last week.

Ban told reporters Wednesday that he couldn't view Gambari's mission as "a success" and said he wanted to discuss possible council action at Friday's meeting.

Myanmar's state TV and radio reported that the country's military ruler, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, told Gambari that he would personally meet detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi but said she must first agree to some of his demands. They include giving up her calls for confronting the government and for imposing sanctions against it, state media said.

U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said she could not confirm the report.

China praised Gambari's talks with the country's military rulers but made clear the "crisis" doesn't threaten international peace and should stay out of the U.N. Security Council.

"There (is a) crisis, but this does not constitute (a) threat ... to the region and international peace and security. Therefore, we think that ... this issue does not belong to the Security Council," China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Gunagya said. "These problems still we believe are basically internal."

The best action the Security Council can take — and has taken — "is to support the secretary-general's initiative and support ambassador Gambari's mission," Wang said. "No international imposed solution can help the situation.

Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Konstantin Dolgov echoed China's view saying "it's not for the Security Council to lead on this matter."

"We don't think that there is a situation of threat to international peace and security at this point in time, but, of course, regional action is very important to prevent that," he said, strongly backing efforts by ASEAN to promote a solution.