The National Coordinator of the Confederation of Artisanal Miners of Peru (Confemin), Ismael Palomino, indicated that they are analyzing to suspend their participation in the dialogue table with the Government and resume the protests in case they do not attend their orders.
Palomino said that after having installed five months of dialogue with the Executive and Ombudsman’s Office, a consensus regarding the claim of artisanal miners is not yet reached before the mining formalization process.
“Communicate to the whole country, after holding five dialogue tables, two with the PCM and two of a work subgroup to technically and legally analyze the supreme decrees, unfortunately no result has been achieved against the claim of artisanal miners, so we are analyzing the possibility of suspending our participation in the dialogue table with the Government”, He told successful.
The National Confemin coordinator said the sixth dialogue table will take place this Friday, August 1.
In addition, Palomino states that the mining problem was unleashed by the government and therefore, they must provide solutions and in case they do not, they will decide to retire from the dialogue table.
“We are evaluating the truce that has occurred with the government to just carry out these dialogue tables. There are no results of this dialogue table, the mobilizations at the national level of all artisanal miners would be resumed“, held.
