Although its military government has said it will hold elections later this year, decades of isolation have left Myanmar one of the most under-developed nations in the world.
Noeleen Heyzer, the UN undersecretary-general, who has led an unprecedented dialogue with Myanmar's leaders about how to move the country forward, talks to Al Jazeera's Veronica Pedrosa.
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