High cost of Myanmar’s isolation

Name: High cost of Myanmar’s isolation
Uploaded: 2010-06-19T06:23:25Z
Description: UN’s Noeleen Heyzer says agricultural reform is vital for the country’s development.

UN’s Noeleen Heyzer says agricultural reform is vital for the country’s development.

myanmar isolation un undersecretary-general noeleen heyzer interview with veronica pedrosa

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.

Source: Al Jazeera