SIR MARK MOODY-STUART: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It
gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this Anglo American's
Annual General Meeting. Notice of the meeting was sent to
shareholders on the 12th March, 2008 and there is a quorum present.
I therefore declare this meeting duly constituted.
To start off with, I'd like to apologise on behalf of Nicky
Oppenheimer. He attended a Board Meeting yesterday and
unfortunately, he's had to leave on urgent business in connection
with seeing a government and as you probably all know, governments
don't arrange their time to suit visiting business people; so he
apologises very much, otherwise he would have been here.
The Notice convening the meeting has been in your hands for the
prescribed period and I propose that it be taken as read. Is that
agreed? Thank you.
In accordance with 'best practice', we're going to hold a poll
on each Resolution and you should have been given a hand-set at the
registration, for the purpose of voting your shares. If you have
not got a handset, or you have any difficulties with it, please
raise your hand and one of the marshals with get you a new one or
provide you with one. Thank you very much. Everybody got their kit?
Good.
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