Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday issued a statement, saying that the 2020 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report recently released by the U.S. State Department failed to reflect Myanmar's significant steps taken in combating human trafficking, Xinhua reported.

In the U.S. report, Myanmar was placed on Tier 3 List which is for countries whose governments are not making significant efforts to comply with the minimum standards.

The ministry's statement underlined that during the reported period, the number of reported human trafficking cases passing through Myanmar as a transit country showed a significant decrease compared to the previous years, saying that most of the recent cases of trafficked boat people do not originate from Myanmar.