Question 36647 — overseas

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Ms. Bénédicte Taurine alerts the Minister of Overseas Affairs to the lack of communication by the prefecture of Guyana of the number of illegal gold mining sites throughout Guyanese territory. As the Minister knows, the National Assembly has validated a commission of inquiry into the fight against illegal gold panning and it will meet on Wednesday February 17, 2021. However, it will not have any official figures regarding the number of sites. active at the start of its work. Indeed, since July 2018, the prefecture in Guyana no longer communicates the number of active clandestine construction sites. Only the Amazonian park in Guyana still communicates them. It took a parliamentary delegation, during a mission to Guyana in mid-December 2020, to be able to estimate the number of these sites. On its return, the mission mentioned the number of 400 illegal gold panning sites. However, in all logically, knowledge of these figures by the commission is essential to carry out this work as best as possible and before the start of it. She thanks him in advance for providing the uncommunicated figures for active illegal gold panning sites and their developments since July 2018.

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