Ian Sinclair visited Dili and surrounds for the week commencing 17 June to meet with key minerals and resources regulatory bodies, ANPM and IPG, and to consolidate relationships. His trip included a review of developments in the extractive industry with Joe Magno, stretching from Tibar Port west of Dili to the Upper Laclo area where they visited in October 2018.

Ian also met with Mr Roberto Lai from TradeInvest who presented at the Melbourne Business Forum held in March. Roberto invited us to participate in a half day business conference organised by TradeInvest to be held on 8 July 2019 in Singapore, which TradeInvest informed us was borne out of the Melbourne Forum. TradeInvest Timor-Leste sent a number of representatives to the Melbourne Forum. TradeInvest is an Investment and Export Promotion Agency with a goal of  facilitating and supporting potential foreign and domestic investment in  Timor-Leste.  A link to TradeInvest website story on the Melbourne Forum is here.

The directors are arranging a meeting with the representatives of the AIFFP, the Federal Government’s initiative to provide $2b infrastructure funding into the Pacific region including Timor-Leste. The Government has recently announced a $250m 10 year infrastructure funding commitment to the Solomon Islands.