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GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. human rights investigator on Myanmar said Saturday he will not visit the Asian country before the end of his mandate.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro says an earlier announcement that Yangon had granted him a visa was a misunderstanding. Myanmar has refused to let the U.N.-appointed rights expert visit since his trip there in November.
Pinheiro, who spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday, has strongly criticized Myanmar's military government for last year's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, and says he does not believe the government's claim it's paving the way for free elections.
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