The phrase carries the substance of the meeting. A raw-material trade relationship means one country digs ore out of the ground and ships it out; the processing, refining and manufacturing — where most of the value is created — happen elsewhere. Moving towards local value addition means Namibia processes more of what it extracts before export. For India, the interest is supply-chain security in critical minerals: lithium and cobalt are inputs for batteries, and rare earth elements for motors and electronics, all central to the energy transition. Securing access through a partnership that also builds processing capacity in the source country is a different proposition from simply buying ore, and it is the model India has been pursuing across resource-rich African partners. The WayaMe payments system, built on India's UPI, is the same logic applied to digital infrastructure — exporting a technology stack rather than a service.