Natural resources governance: the foundation of…

Natural resource governance lies today at the heart of the challenges of peace, security and prosperity. The central question is whether minerals intensify conflicts or, conversely, can become instruments for ending them when they are effectively governed.

Objectives of the debate

• To recognize the link between natural resource governance, conflict prevention and sustainable peace, and to affirm the relevance of a more coherent and universal approach.
• Mapping the volume and types of conflict-affected natural resources.
• Formulating conclusions and recommendations on the prevention and management of natural resource-related conflicts.
• To move beyond the fragmented and largely national responses currently in place by laying the foundations for a common framework of resource governance and traceability as instruments for conflict prevention and resolution.
• To mobilize the United Nations system, regional organizations and relevant partners around a shared vision in which natural resources and ecological capital become drivers of peace and shared prosperity.

The meeting will be presided over by the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The agenda was adopted.

 Presidency: Her Excellency Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 Briefer: His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

 Statement: Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

 Statement: Her Excellency Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 Statement: Her Excellency Irene Vélez Torres, Acting Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia

 Statements: Denmark, Liberia, Somalia, Pakistan, Russian Federation, United States of America, Greece, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Latvia, Panama, China, Bahrain, France

 Statement: His Excellency Roberto Kury Pesantes, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Ecuador

 Statement: His Excellency Téte António, Minister for External Relations, Angola

 Statement: His Excellency Constant-Serge Bounda, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Congolese Abroad, Republic of the Congo

 Statement: His Excellency Mubita Luwabelwa, Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region

 Statement: His Excellency Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)

 Statement: His Excellency Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Indonesia

 Statement: His Excellency Abdulla Balalaa, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs for Energy and Sustainability, United Arab Emirates

 Statements: Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea

 The meeting was suspended.

 The meeting was resumed.

 Statements: Ukraine, Germany, India, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Viet Nam

 Statement: His Excellency Stavros Lambrinidis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations

 Statements: Cuba, Spain, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Sierra Leone, Paraguay, Türkiye, Ethiopia, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Côte d'Ivoire, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Japan, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Maldives

 Statement: His Excellency Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Edrees, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations

 Statements: Guatemala, Burundi, Belgium, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Portugal, Mexico, United Republic of Tanzania, Argentina, Uganda

 Further statement: Pakistan

 The meeting was adjourned.