190413MINING FORUM FOR BUIN
By Aloysius Laukai

The Department of Mining in conjunction with the Secretariat of the Panguna Negotiations are planning to have the first Mining Forum for the people of Buin and Siwai and Bana next week.

The South Bougainville Regional Forum will be held on Monday and Tuesday at the Buin Secondary School.

The Forum is just a continuation from other such forums that were held for North Bougainville last year and early this year.

After this forum one last forum for South Bougainville will be held at Bana at a later date.

This leaves the remaining forum for Central Bougainville to be arranged later in the year.

The Mining Department has been having all these forums to gauge the views of all stakeholders on Bougainville on the future on mining in the Autonomous Bougainville Region.

The last Forums in North Bougainville strongly supported the ABG President, JOHN MOMIS to negotiate a better deal for Bougainville and to open one mine to assist the ABG to realize the Economic Self Reliance which Bougainville is unable to meet due to falling commodity prices and no economic activity throughout the region.

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