Bougainville's Me'ekamui dismiss Rio share spat

The leader of Bougainville's Me'ekamui rebel group, Chris Uma, says the spat over shares in Bougainville Copper Ltd, BCL, is of no consequence.

There has been a war of words between the governments of Papua New Guinea and Bougainville after multi national miner, Rio Tinto, gave its shares in BCL to them.

PNG later gave its shares to Panguna landowners, a move that infuriated Bougainville President John Momis, who says the shares should all go to his Autonomous Government.

But the special envoy for Mr Uma, John Jaintong, told Don Wiseman says it is irrelevant because in Me'ekamui's view there is no BCL.