MRA Managing Director Philip Samar made this call when presenting six revised MoAs to the Mining Minister Byron Chan on Monday.
The revised MoAs are for Hidden Valley, Tolukuma, Ok Tedi, Simberi and Sinivit.
The only new mining project MoA is for Woodlark.
Samar said that there is definitely a need to improve on how these MOAs are administered.
“The negotiations, as difficult and challenging as they might be, is actually the easy part.