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

A/RES/57/302View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 27 Role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

21 versions · 2003–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/252

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/252	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	2,265	73%Compare
2025	A/RES/79/275	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	2,323	92%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/270	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	2,192	87%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/277	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	2,374	46%Compare
2021	A/RES/75/261	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	1,693	56%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Armed Conflicts Certificates of Origin Conflict Diamonds Diamonds Illicit Traffic Information Dissemination International Trade International Trade Law Programme Implementation Report Preparation Sanctions South Africa Statistical Data

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the report of the Chair of the Kimberley Process1 submitted pursuant to resolution 56/263, and congratulates the Governments, and the representatives of the regional economic integration organizations, the organized diamond industry and civil society participating in the Kimberley Process, on having finalized the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme;

Recognizes that the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme can help to ensure the effective implementation of relevant resolutions of the Security Council containing sanctions on the trade in conflict diamonds, and calls for full implementation of existing Council measures targeting the illicit trade in rough diamonds that play a role in fuelling conflict;

Strongly supports the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme presented in the form of the document entitled “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme”;

Notes the commitment made at the Kimberley Process ministerial meeting on 5 November 2002 to ensure that measures taken to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for rough diamonds will be consistent with international trade rules;⁴

⁴Ibid., para. 3.

Welcomes the decision to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme from 1 January 2003;

Also welcomes the decision to collate and disseminate relevant statistical data on the production of and international trade in rough diamonds, as a tool for effective implementation;

Stresses that the widest possible participation in the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is essential and should be encouraged and facilitated, and urges all Member States to participate actively in the Certification Scheme;

Welcomes the willingness expressed by the Government of South Africa to chair the Kimberley Process during its first year of implementation;

Requests the Chair of the Kimberley Process to present to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the process;

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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents