Public Joint Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel (MISX:GMKN) has postponed the negotiations on merger with United Company RUSAL, International Public Joint-Stock Company (SEHK:486), Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Potanin told RBC TV on September 17, 2022. "The initiative to resume the negotiations came from the new executives of RUSAL, but we have not managed to start a dialogue. I will not undertake to analyze the reasons for this.

I think that the idea is still interesting, still alive, but we will have to postpone it for a later term, when the colleagues get ready for the talks," Potanin said.