He Ministry of Mines and Energies reported an agreement with Fura Gemswhich allows you to lift the blockages of the Coscuez mine in Boyacá. In this it was agreed to recognize workers, their unions, as well as Informal miners, guaquerosand initiate a dialogue process that leads to the formalization of people who develop artisanal and informal mining.
At a social dialogue led by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Government of Boyacá, together with entities of the national and local order such as the City Hall of San Pablo de Borbur, Corpoboyacá, the National Mining Agency, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Defense, together with the Coscuez Sa-Fura Gems companyThey added wills to advance inter -institutionally in agreements to make the resolution of conflicts related to mining activity in the territory.
The agreements
As part of the dialogue, the Coscuez SA company, a Fura Gems company, promised to recognize the ancestral and traditional (guaqueros) mining processes that have historically been carried out in the municipality of San Pablo de Borburand in this way, the commitment to establish respectful dialogue exercises between all the actors, which includes 500 formal workers and around 2000 informal miners, participating in the ancestral and traditional mining activity, which are recognized by the National Mining Agency.
(Also read: Agreements between peasants and government to put an end to blockade in Bogotá – Tunja).
In addition, it was agreed that the next meeting with the communities, which will be led by the Ministry of Interior and will have the participation of actors from the national and local government, will have guarantor entities such as the Ombudsmanin order to clarify the operation and framework of public force powers in the sector. For its part, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the National Mining Agency They undertake to strengthen the formalization process and advance agreements directly with the miners.
Negotiations between the Government and Fura Gems
In the same way, the contracts that were suspended by the situation will be resumed, for which the protesters undertake to lift the remaining points of blocking. As part of long -term solutions, The Coscuez SA company will meet with the Vice Ministry of Labor Relations, workers and their unions and minersto address pending labor and union issues, giving continuity to dialogue spaces that had been taking place with the Ministry of Labor.
(You can read: The ANM signs more than 10 mining formalization contracts in Boyacá).
He Governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amayasaid: “To thank in a special way the Minister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma and the vice minister Sorrel Aroca, who has been here in the Ministry, but especially in the territory, that we have done a determined job, and we could achieve an agreement in two problems that are inherited from previous governments, which are complex and that seemed impossible to resolve them. The theme of coals, and a situation of emeralds. We achieve these two agreements, the strikes are lifted, today we have terminated an agreement here that seems to me that it is on the way to achieve dignity for communities”
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