Ann: Government of Mali, page-25

The ANN does not say what the issues are that the Govt wants resolved.
Likely ensuring the eventual environment rehabilitation is cemented into the contract and likely ensuring continued community involvement.
The longer this goes on for closer to out of escrow the LLL shares are. This maybe not even be resolved by the out of escrow time?
If it goes on unresolved even after out of escrow time the BOD may still decide to hold on to the shares and sell them via Treadstone.
All a new BOD has to do after escrow is distribute the LLL shares to holders and let the negotiations play out as they will.
BOD's do not do the negotiating. They hire someone to do that on their behalf.
No different to us. In material matters we would hire a solicitor rather than represent ourself.