Mayor Deberne said: "Currently, we cannot stop the Central Government's decision to limit imported copper ore from entering East Africa through collaborating with other cities."
"Therefore, to resolve this issue, we must address it ourselves, and copper mining and related industries are our core and foundation, so obviously we cannot abandon them."
"Imported copper ore mainly threatens our upstream industry, but in the midstream and downstream industries, we still have great advantages, though there remains the risk of these advantages being overtaken."
"Therefore, we should start with two points: in the upstream industry, that is copper mining, we should reach agreements with other regions in the copper belt, allocating mining shares and standardizing prices based on resource conditions, economic strength, population, etc., to avoid vicious regional competition."
