17:00 | Huancavelica, Apr. ten.
Yanet Meza Aguirre, mayor of the municipality of San Pedro de Coris, province of Churcampa, region of Huancavelica, highlighted the decision of the local communities who support the sale of the Cobriza mine to the Canadian company Sprott, which has global funds.
The mayor said that as authorities, they will oversee the process to ensure that this operation becomes a reality, which will bring well-being to the people. neighborhood of San Pedro de Coris.
“The population takes this news with great joy, which is important for the tranquility and development of our neighborhood,” he said.
The mayor, however, said they were taking the news very cautiously and cautiously, “given that we have had purchase process failures in the past and we will ensure that this process is completed.”
Speaking to the Regional Communications Network (RCN), he said they would welcome the Sprott company with open arms.
“Anything that comes to solve the problems of the neighborhood is welcome and we will welcome them. This week we will have a meeting with the communities to achieve a memorial to the main actors: the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) and the assembly of creditors, so that they can lobby and ratify the purchase and sale of the mine,” he said.
Meza Aguirre pointed out that members of the community of San Pedro de Coris are already calm and take the news of the sale of the Cobriza mine with great joy, but they are also cautious and cautious due to the bad experience that they had with some Chinese buyers. “It is a hope and a light in the darkness of 12 years of mining conflict,” he said.
The municipal authority then called on the buyer to come to San Pedro de Coris to find out about their intentions to develop the communities, their economic capacity and their commercial policies.
“We also want to make it clear to the buyer that we are not going to give any time tolerance. We are going to ask everyone for speed. There will not be another month, as in the case of other buyers” , he noted.
The mayor adds that the liquidator will be asked to provide the sales contract following the meeting of creditors, in order to ratify the purchase.
“Also to ensure that the company buying Cobriza is serious, with economic solvency, that it has experience in the sector and clear policies,” he said.
In this sense, he recalled that it has already happened to Chinese investors who told them that they had economic solvency “and that in the end they did not have a single sun”.
“We hope that this time the same thing does not happen and if the company is big, hope that the sale is done and that they do not leave us in the air. On our part, there is all the will to be able to coordinate and accompany the process and that there is no sabotage of the sale”, he specified.
He warned that if the sale does not take place in May, communities will adopt a more radical position. “The deadlines are given and we want this process to be resolved without any hindrance. As an authority, I am neutral and what I want is for this situation to materialize,” he stressed.
Finally, he assured that those who have always trapped the process is the assembly of creditors and recalled that the conflict in San Pedro de Coris has not been resolved precisely because of this organization.
“We have observers of the process and we will push for this to be resolved as soon as possible,” he concluded.
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