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Vedanta's Zambia court hearing adjourned for a week

4th June 2019

By: Reuters

  

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LUSAKA – A court hearing following Zambia's decision to name a provisional liquidator to run Vedanta Resources' Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) business was adjourned for a week on Tuesday without tackling Vedanta's demands to be involved, the company said.

Vedanta Resources, part-owner of the Mumbai-listed Vedanta group of companies, is KCM's majority shareholder, while Zambian State mining company ZCCM-IH holds a roughly 20% stake.

In a statement, Vedanta said the judge had considered preliminary issues brought by ZCCM and reserved judgment until June 11.

The judge did not address Vedanta's request for it to be involved in the liquidation proceedings, which it says have so far been one-sided.

"Vedanta does not consider that there are just and equitable grounds to wind up KCM and will defend all attempts to do so," it said.

Zambia's decision to name a provisional liquidator to run Vedanta Resources' KCM business, one of the country's biggest employers, has unnerved international miners concerned about rising resource nationalism in Zambia and neighbouring countries.

The Zambian government says KCM has breached the terms of its licence.

Edited by Reuters

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