The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and the European Commission.
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The United States and the European Commission hosted Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) Forum members today in New York City on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week NYC to discuss opportunities, priorities, and challenges in responsible mining, processing, and recycling of critical minerals needed for the energy transition. The meeting was Co-Chaired by Jose W. Fernandez, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, and Maive Rute, European Commission Deputy Director General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs, with participation from ministers and high-level officials from MSP Forum members. The MSP Forum followed a meeting of the MSP Partners, chaired by the Republic of Korea’s 2nd Vice Foreign Minister Kang Insun.
During today’s event in New York City, the MSP Forum welcomed seven new members – the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, the Philippines, Serbia, Türkiye, and Zambia – and discussed a number of relevant policy issues and specific critical minerals projects and how MSP Partners can assist in advancing them to production. These seven additional MSP Forum members join Argentina, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Namibia, Peru, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, who were announced as Forum members at the inaugural high-level MSP Forum event held virtually in July 2024.
The new MSP Forum members shared their priorities on the development of their critical mineral sectors, including on project development, environmental, labor, social, and governance aspects of mining, and policies related to supporting investments contributing to local value addition. Participants also discussed a roadmap for the MSP Forum’s two workstreams on project development and policy dialogue. MSP Forum members will continue to work together to develop individual projects and promote a dialogue on policies that contribute to diversification and resilience of critical minerals supply chains.
The United States and the European Union look forward to hosting MSP Forum members for the next MSP Forum event on the margins of Raw Materials Week in Brussels in December 2024.
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For more information on the MSP, go to https://www.state.gov/minerals-security-partnership/. To stay up to date, follow Under Secretary Fernandez on X: @State_E, LinkedIn: @State-E, and Facebook: @StateDeptE. For media inquiries, please contact E_Communications@state.gov.
