GENEVA, April 11 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan declared Friday that an eventual condemnation of China on human rights issues would have no effect on the UN Security Council, on which China is a permanent member.

Talking during a three-day visit to Geneva, Annan said the UN Human Rights Commission had to "take its own decisions" concerning the resolution against China and, if adopted, "it is a result we will have to stand by."

Diplomats from the 53 countries that make up the UN Human Rights Commission believe it is unlikely the resolution, proposed by Denmark and sponsored by 19 other countries, will be adopted.

Denmark, whose backers include nine fellow European Union members and the United States, filed a resolution to the 53-member Geneva Commission Thursday denouncing Chinese human rights abuses.

Annan rejected the notion that the whole Security Council would come under fire if one of the five permanent members is criticised.

"We are dealing with individual states, not the Council collectively," he stressed.

The UN Secretary General refused to comment on whether China was putting pressure on other countries to avoid the condemnation.