Change to Board of Directors

Aram Resources PLC 7 September 2000 Aram Resources PLC ('the Company') Appointment of New Chairman As previously disclosed, Mr Giles Nixon (68), the Company's non-executive Chairman, announced at the May Annual General Meeting his intention to step down from the position he has held since the Company's flotation in 1997 in the autumn of this year. The Company announces with immediate effect the retirement of Mr Nixon and his succession as non-executive Chairman by Mr E. C. (Ted) Dilley (61) who has been a non-executive director of the Company since 1999.