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030710JSB MEET
By Aloysius Laukai

Officials from the ABG and the Papua New Guinea government will sit for the first Joint Supervisory Board meeting since the second ABG was inaugurated in June this year.
The two-day meeting will start tomorrow, Wednesday.
Combine ABG technical team and cabinet members left Buka for Port Moresby yesterday to join the ABG President JOHN MOMIS who was already in Port Moresby.
The ABG team would want to address the following agendas during this meeting.
1.The Restoration and Development Grant totalling FIFTEEN MILLION KINA which was not included by the National Government in its 2010 budget.
2.Funding of an Establishment or settling in grant of FIVE MILLION KINA.
3.Revisit the status of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the transfer of powers and functions.
4.Preparation for the Bougainville Copper Agreement Review.
5.Restructure of the National Co-ordination Office of Bougainville Affairs(NCOBA).
And number six, Additional support grant to the ABG.
New Dawn FM understands that the last JSB meeting was held in March this year under the former President, JAMES TANIS