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Justice for Myanmar (JFM) released a statement calling on the United Nations to investigate possible conflicts of interest with their Special Envoy to Myanmar due to her links with Chinese state-owned entities. The Special Envoy, Julie Bishop, served as the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 – 2018 and was appointed to her position as UN Special Envoy in April of 2024. Bishop also heads the global business consultancy firm, Julie Bishop and Partners.
Bishop’s involvement with Energy Transition Minerals was first reported by The Saturday Paper, a local Australian newspaper service. ETM is partly controlled by the partially state-owned Chinese company, Shenghe Resources (to the extent of 9 percent), and to a lesser extent by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), which is also state-owned.
ETM has been involved in a controversial uranium and rare earth minerals mining project in Kvanefjeld, Greenland. ETM and Shenghe Resources signed a Memorandum of Understanding to import uranium from this project into China. The project faced resistance from the local population, who had environmental and health concerns, and was eventually stopped by a governmental ban on uranium mining in 2021, because of which the ETM is currently in a legal battle with the government. The company announced its engagement with Bishop, in the capacity of a strategic advisor, in January this year. Bishop’s stated role is “to provide advice and assistance to ETM […] to advance the Kvanefjeld Project towards development, in parallel with the ongoing legal process.”
Activist groups, foremost among them JFM, have cited concerns over how Bishop’s involvement with ETM could create a conflict of interest with her role as the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar. Myanmar is China’s largest supplier of rare minerals to China and Shenghe Resources is one of the biggest Chinese processors of such minerals. This industry’s revenues in large part fund the Myanmar military regime, which resists pro-democracy forces. In light of this, Bishop’s possible engagement with such entities could subvert her commitment to the role of Special Envoy, which is aimed at reaching “a resolution to the crisis in Myanmar” and necessitates the presence of “trust and integrity” in her work.
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Bishop’s involvement with Energy Transition Minerals was first reported by The Saturday Paper, a local Australian newspaper service. ETM is partly controlled by the partially state-owned Chinese company, Shenghe Resources (to the extent of 9 percent), and to a lesser extent by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), which is also state-owned.
ETM has been involved in a controversial uranium and rare earth minerals mining project in Kvanefjeld, Greenland. ETM and Shenghe Resources signed a Memorandum of Understanding to import uranium from this project into China. The project faced resistance from the local population, who had environmental and health concerns, and was eventually stopped by a governmental ban on uranium mining in 2021, because of which the ETM is currently in a legal battle with the government. The company announced its engagement with Bishop, in the capacity of a strategic advisor, in January this year. Bishop’s stated role is “to provide advice and assistance to ETM […] to advance the Kvanefjeld Project towards development, in parallel with the ongoing legal process.”
Activist groups, foremost among them JFM, have cited concerns over how Bishop’s involvement with ETM could create a conflict of interest with her role as the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar. Myanmar is China’s largest supplier of rare minerals to China and Shenghe Resources is one of the biggest Chinese processors of such minerals. This industry’s revenues in large part fund the Myanmar military regime, which resists pro-democracy forces. In light of this, Bishop’s possible engagement with such entities could subvert her commitment to the role of Special Envoy, which is aimed at reaching “a resolution to the crisis in Myanmar” and necessitates the presence of “trust and integrity” in her work.
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