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CHAIRMAN’S COMMENTS AT THE 2023 AGM
CHAIRMAN’S COMMENTS AT THE 2023 AGM.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nNEWS RELEASE, 10 MAY 2023\n \n \nCHAIRMAN'S COMMENTS AT THE 2023 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING\n \nAntofagasta plc (the \"Company\") today released the script to be used by the Chairman, Jean-Paul Luksic at the Company's Annual General Meeting that commences at 2:00 pm today.\n \nGood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.\nWelcome to Antofagasta plc's 2023 Annual General Meeting.\nIt is a pleasure to be here in London to meet with our shareholders. Thank you for joining us today, be it either in person or virtually, and I confirm that we have a quorum present.\nThe majority of our Directors are here in person today. You will see that our CEO, Iván Arriagada, is also here along with several senior members of our executive team who are available to answer any questions that you may have if they aren't covered in the meeting. Photos and short biographies of each of our Directors, including their Board and Committee roles, are set out on pages 13 to 18 of the Notice of Meeting.\nThere is an important update since we published the Notice of Meeting - the Board has appointed an additional independent non-executive director and member of the Company's Audit and Risk Committee. Please welcome Heather Lawrence to your Board.\nHeather has significant experience as a UK non-executive director. She is currently a non-executive director and Chair of the audit committee of Melrose Industries plc. Previously, she was a non-executive director of Coats Group plc, and a non-executive director and Chair of the audit committee of FlyBe Group plc.\nNow, I would like to give you a brief overview of the strategy and performance of your company and make some comments on the macro environment in which we are operating. Iván Arriagada will make a short presentation about our performance in 2022 and then we will move onto the formal part of the meeting. After that I will open the floor for questions.\nLet me start by saying a few words about how we operate.\nI want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts taken by everyone in the company that resulted in a record safety performance during 2022. Not only were we fatality free, but we also lowered the number of high potential incidents and lost time injury frequency rate to record lows. This achievement requires vigilance and discipline from everyone at our operations - from the leade...