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From page 4 same January Meeting that MNR and MSG approval of he had begun to negotiate the two senior staff positions directly with the EITI breathed new life into International Secretariat to GYEITI and the NS became secure an extension of the productive for the first time deadline for the 4th. Annual since the appointment of the Report and requested MSG NC in early 2022 and began support for this action to work assiduously to However, the MSG only producearevisedTOR. received a copy of said letter • In view of this after it had been sent. The satisfactory development, EITI Standard clearly states the 58th Meeting in that any request for

December 2022 of the MSG extension “must be made in Statutory Body recorded the advance of the deadline and following decision: “The be endorsed by the MultiMSG concluded that it was StakeholderGroup”(Art.7) no longer necessary for the • In late January MSGCo-Chairstoengagewiththe Civic wrote to the Minister National Coordinator since of MNR informing him that the PS had reported at a Co- MSG-Civic actions would Chairs meeting that the post continue to be guided by the of National Coordinator had December MSG decision, beenvacated.” referredtoabove.

• At that meeting the • The MSG-Civic has proposal to conduct a conducted its Performance Performance Evaluation of Evaluation of the NC and is the NC was agreed to by the participating in the ongoing MSG-Civic on the condition process. that it be undertaken • MSG-Civic vote to expeditiously and this abstainontheTORissuewas process was set in motion. consistent with the position W i t h o u t n o t i c e o r communicated to the explanation the, NC re- Minister appeared and presented Sincerely, himself at the January 2023 Vanda Radzik, Mike (59th)MSGmeeting. McCormack

•The Minister of Natural On behalf of MSG-Civic Resources informed the of the GYEITI