A U.S.-hosted, high-level meeting (inaugural on Feb 4, 2026) to coordinate partners on securing, diversifying, and strengthening critical-minerals supply chains; it brought delegations from “over 50” nations — including G7 members and many mineral-producing and consuming countries — plus allied initiatives such as the Minerals Security Partnership.
The readout does not list specific bilateral steps; U.S.-Ecuador cooperation on critical minerals is being advanced through Ecuador’s participation in multilateral mechanisms (e.g., the Minerals Security Partnership/MSP) and typical U.S. measures: information-sharing, project-level support, investment facilitation, and standards for responsible mining and processing — but no new, country-specific steps were announced in the Landau–Sommerfeld readout.
The readout simply says they “reaffirmed their mutual commitment to ending illegal immigration” but does not specify programs or policies; publicly known U.S.–Ecuador migration collaboration has included law-enforcement cooperation, information sharing, and migration-management capacity-building under regional migration and counternarcotics programs, though none were named in this readout.
No new agreements, dedicated funding, or implementation timelines were announced in the State Department readout of the Landau–Sommerfeld meeting.
Gabriela Sommerfeld is Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister); as Ecuador’s top diplomat she leads foreign-policy formulation and represents Ecuador in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, including engagement on economic and regional-security issues referenced in the meeting.