UN General Assembly
2023

The fourth important aspect of global trust and solidarity is to secure the continent’s mineral rich areas from pilfering and conflict. Many such areas have become catacombs of misery and exploitation. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered this for decades, despite the strong United Nations presence there. What happened? The world economy owes the Democratic Republic of the Congo much but gives it very little. The mayhem visited on resource-rich areas does not respect national boundaries. The Sudan. Mali. Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic — the list grows on and on and on.