Podcast28 Sep 2018 17:31
I have had a go at transcribing a portion of the podcast interview:
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[14:57] “…subsequently we have had a number of meetings with those parties, where it has been agreed that the next phase of the project is now to finalise the JDA. I think it is very important…government now want to see that our partners are committed to the project. And to do that, they want to binding documents in place between our partners and the project. And the stepping stone to getting a binding agreement in place…is we’ve had a request from our partners to the government of Mozambique and to the national state power utility to receive a support package, we call it. But really we see that…at the moment that’s being negotiated in the form of a letter of support or MOU, between the project parties as well as the government of Mozambique and EDM. And as I say, this is currently under negotiation. We have at this stage, submitted a list of our requirements in that support document. Its nothing too contentious. I think it’s just some key principles that will then give our partners comfort, to finalise the binding agreements. And certainly nothing that we haven’t received before. We have received comments back from government on that list of requirements. We have signed off on what they’ve provided us with and now we are just waiting for the final sign-off from government on this document. And we have an agreed time table and programme, with GE and CMEC, to finalise the JDA, once that document has been received. So that’s very much where we are. We are at an advanced stage, with finalising all of those things. And we anticipate that the JDA will be finalised within a three-month period, once we’ve received this document.” [17:10]
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