Washington DC, Feb. 4 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted the importance of economic security through critical minerals and the need for allies to come together not only for rectifying the mistakes of past but to pool in collective talent and innovation to ensure diversity and affordability in supply chains.

He made the remarks during the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial being hosted by the United States.

Rubio said, "We are gathered here today as the first step to rectify the mistake, bring together our collective talent and innovation".

The US Secretary of State underlined how mining came to be seen as unglamorous with respect to designing computers. "As we embraced what was new and glamorous, we outsourced what s...