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 32Role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2011.

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Reaffirms its strong and continuing support for the Kimberley Process Certification SchemeError: Reference source not found and the Kimberley Process as a whole;

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 act as a mechanism for the prevention of future conflicts, and calls for the full implementation of existing Council measures targeting the illicit trade in rough diamonds, particularly conflict diamonds which play a role in fuelling conflict;

Welcomes the conditional admission of Swaziland to the Kimberley Process;

Recognizes the important contributions that the international efforts to address the problem of conflict diamonds, including the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, have made to the settlement of conflicts and the consolidation of peace in Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone;

Notes the efforts to further strengthen implementation of the minimum requirements of the Kimberley Process, to review the implementation of import confirmation requirements and to examine the application of Kimberley Process Certification Scheme requirements in cross-border Internet sales;

Also notes the decision of the General Council of the World Trade Organization of 15 May 2003 granting a waiver with respect to the measures taken to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, effective from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2006, and the decision of the General Council of 17 November 2006 granting an extension of the waiver until 31 December 2012;

Takes note of the report of the Chair of the Kimberley Process submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 64/109,Error: Reference source not found and congratulates the participating Governments, the regional economic integration organization, the diamond industry and civil society organizations involved in the Process for contributing to the development, implementation and monitoring of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme;

Acknowledges the progress made by Kimberley Process working groups, Participants and observers during 2010 in fulfilling the objectives set by the Chair to strengthen implementation of the peer review system, increase the transparency and accuracy of statistics, promote research into the traceability of diamonds, promote inclusiveness by broadening the level of involvement by Governments, industry and civil society in the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, foster a sense of ownership by Participants, improve information and communication flows and enhance the capacity of the Certification Scheme to respond to emerging challenges;

Notes that the annual reporting process on Kimberley Process Certification Scheme implementation is the main comprehensive and regular source of information on the implementation provided by Participants, and calls upon Participants to submit consistent and substantive annual reports in order to conform to this requirement;

Expresses appreciation to Bangladesh, Belarus and India for receiving review visits, and welcomes the commitment of those countries to continuously open their certification systems to reviews and improvements;

Acknowledges the efforts of the Kimberley Process to strengthen implementation and enforcement, and in particular to ensure coordination of Kimberley Process actions in relation to the occurrence of fraudulent certificates, to apply vigilance and ensure the detection and reporting of shipments of suspicious origin and to facilitate the exchange of information in cases of infringement;

Stresses that the widest possible participation in the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is essential, and encourages all Member States to contribute to the work of the Kimberley Process by seeking membership, participating actively in the Certification Scheme and complying with its undertakings, and welcomes the increased involvement of civil society organizations in the Process;

Calls upon the Participants of the Kimberley Process to continue to articulate and improve rules and procedures to further enhance the effectiveness of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, and notes with satisfaction the systematization of the work of the Process with respect to developing transparent and uniform rules and procedures and improving the mechanism for consultations and coordination within the Process;

Notes with appreciation the willingness of the Kimberley Process to support and provide technical assistance to those Participants experiencing temporary difficulties in complying with the requirements of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme;

Also notes with appreciation the continued cooperation of the Kimberley Process with the United Nations on the issue of diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire, in accordance with the administrative decision on sharing information with the United Nations, and the continued monitoring of the situation in that country on the basis of the reports of the United Nations Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire, originally established by the Security Council in its resolution 1584 (2005) of 1 February 2005, and through liaison with Côte d’Ivoire, and encourages the continued cooperation between the Kimberley Process and the United Nations in addressing the issue of diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire, with the ultimate objective of meeting the preconditions for the lifting of United Nations sanctions on the trade in rough diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire;

Encourages the continued efforts of the Kimberley Process to strengthen implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in West Africa, welcomes Guinea’s efforts in this regard and Liberia’s actions to respond to the continuing challenges to such implementation, and calls upon Member States that are Kimberley Process Participants to consider supporting Kimberley Process Certification Scheme implementation in West Africa;

Acknowledges with appreciation the adoption of the initiatives submitted by the Chair of the Kimberley Process concerning the cooperation of the Kimberley Process with the World Customs Organization, the establishment of the Sub-Working Group on Trade Facilitation and the establishment of the ad hoc committee for exploring the modalities of enhancing the efficiency of the Kimberley Process, with a view to providing administrative support for its activities;Error: Reference source not found

Acknowledges the adoption by the plenary of the Kimberley Process of four additional administrative decisions, including on terms of reference for the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the Kimberley Process, procedures for the preparation and adoption of documents/decisions in the Kimberley Process, procedures for respecting confidentiality within the Kimberley Process, and the use of Kimberley Process certificates-based data;Error: Reference source not found

Notes with appreciation the significant attention and effort devoted by the Kimberley Process to improving efforts related to enforcement, which led to the convening of an enforcement seminar, held on 24 June 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and issuance of a corresponding report entitled “Diamonds without Borders: An Assessment of the Challenges of Implementing and Enforcing the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme”, also notes with appreciation the active involvement of the World Customs Organization in the seminar, and notes that the cooperation between the Kimberley Process and the World Customs Organization underscores the need for international cooperation between national and international enforcement organizations;

Notes with satisfaction the progress of work performed on footprinting diamonds from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in order to bolster the capacity of the West African Kimberley Process authorities to address potential contamination of their own production by sanctioned Ivorian diamonds and on updating of the footprint of Marange diamonds from Zimbabwe;

Acknowledges with great appreciation the important contribution that Israel, as Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2010, has made to the efforts to curb the trade in conflict diamonds, welcomes the selection of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Chair, and takes note that the Process has decided to take the decision on the Vice-Chair for 2011 by written procedure;

Requests the Chair of the Kimberley Process to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the Process;

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

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