The Carter Center is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that the Democratic Republic of Congo will begin renegotiating critical mining contracts in mid-July[i] without policy or procedures to guide this process or indication of whether requisite expertise will be secured.
"We support the need for renegotiations wholeheartedly," said John Stremlau, vice president for peace programs at The Carter Center. "But not without publicly disclosed measures to ensure the integrity of the process."
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