UN takes facilitator rule in mining confrontation

The subcommittee seeking to hammer out a deal to solve  mining and water resources disputes  in  the Ngäbe Bugle region agreed to continue the dialogue on, Saturday March 3 at the UN offices in the City of Knowledge. 

The decision was made Friday in the American Cooperative Institute in Panama City, after a meeting with the mediator, observers, the Coalition for the Defense of Natural Resources and People's Rights and Ngäbe Bugle, chief general of the region Silvia Carrera, and other traditional authorities.

With the agreement of the government,the "United Nations  will take  the role of facilitator of the process," said a press release.

The statement ends:"In order to keep the community informed and to avoid conflicting statements at the end of each session a joint communiqué that will be published by the mediator "

Meanwhile Minister of the Presidency Jimmy Papadimitrius condemned the intransigence  of the indigenous negotiators.