The Role of Diamonds in Fuelling Conflict :#breaking the Link Between the Illicit Transaction of Rough Diamonds and Armed Conflict as a Contribution to Prevention and Settlement of Conflicts

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 175Role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2001.

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4 versions · 2001–2014

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14 topics

Armed Conflicts Certificates of Origin Civil Society Conferences Conflict Diamonds Diamonds Illicit Traffic Law Enforcement Negotiation Participants Report Preparation Sanctions Compliance Standards Technical Aspects

What does this mandate say?

14 operative paragraphs

Calls upon all States to implement fully Security Council measures targeting the link between the trade in conflict diamonds and the supply to rebel movements of weapons, fuel or other prohibited materiel;

Urges all States to support efforts of the diamond producing, processing, exporting and importing countries and the diamond industry to find ways to break the link between conflict diamonds and armed conflict, and encourages other appropriate initiatives to this end, including improved international cooperation on law enforcement;

Expresses the need to give urgent and careful consideration to devising effective and pragmatic measures to address the problem of conflict diamonds, the elements of which would include:

The creation and implementation of a simple and workable international certification scheme for rough diamonds;

Basing the scheme primarily on national certification schemes;

The need for national practices to meet internationally agreed minimum standards;

The aim of securing the widest possible participation;

The need for diamond processing, exporting and importing States to act in concert;

The need for appropriate arrangements to help to ensure compliance, acting with respect for the sovereignty of States;

The need for transparency;

Welcomes the offer by the Government of Namibia to convene a workshop of the world’s leading diamond processing, exporting and importing countries, continuing the momentum of the Kimberley Process to consider technical aspects pertaining to the envisaged international certification scheme for rough diamonds;

Encourages the countries participating in the Kimberley Process to consider expanding the membership of the Process in order to allow all key States with a significant interest in the world diamond industry to participate in further meetings, and to move ahead with the intergovernmental negotiating process to develop detailed proposals for the envisaged international certification scheme for rough diamonds, in close collaboration with the diamond industry and taking into account the views of relevant elements of civil society;

Requests the countries participating in the Kimberley Process to submit to the General Assembly, no later than at its fifty-sixth session, a report on progress made;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”.

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