Rio Tinto meets with Panguna landowners by ramunickel Aloysius Laukai | New Dawn
ABG President and ABG Minister for Public Service, Joel Banam, Chris Siriosi (ABG's Legal Officer), Raymond Masoso (Secretary of the Panguna Negotiation Office), Stephen Burain (CEO for Mining Department), Paul Coleman and other participants at the meeting. Picture by Aloysius Laukai
A one day meeting between the Panguna Landowners and the Secretary of Bougainville Copper Limited, Paul Coleman [PNG Manager for Rio Tinto] started in Buka this morning and was opened by the ABG President, John Momis.
The meeting is a follow up of several meetings between the two groups to discuss outstanding issues that the two groups needs sort out before the negotiations on the future of the closed Panguna Mine can proceed between ABG, BCL and the Landowners themselves.
Today's meeting is being attended by all the nine Landowner Associations that are now registering with IPA before they vote for one overall Umbrella association Chairman who will represent all these associations.
ramunickel | July 3, 2013 at 2:51 pm | Tags: Bougainville, John Momis, Landholders, Panguna, Papua New Guinea, Paul Coleman, Rio Tinto |
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