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 33The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2012.

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Armed Conflicts Certificates of Origin Conflict Diamonds Côte D'ivoire Eswatini Ghana Illicit Traffic Liberia Rules and Regulations Sanctions Sanctions Compliance Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic Of)West Africa

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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 admission of Swaziland to the Kimberley Process as a full Participant in May 2011;

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 65/137,2 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 2011 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 Botswana, Lesotho and Ukraine for receiving review visits in 2011, 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 acknowledges the importance of 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 provisions of Security Council resolution 1980 (2011) of 28 April 2011 and in line with the administrative decision on sharing information with the United Nations, and encourages the Kimberley Process Working Group on Monitoring and Working Group of Diamond Experts, with the support of the Friends of Côte d’Ivoire, to actively collaborate with the United Nations Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire, originally established by the Council in its resolution 1584 (2005) of 1 February 2005, and through liaison with 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;

Takes note of the communication by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire to the Kimberley Process plenary meeting in Kinshasa in 2011 on the situation prevailing since the reunification of the country, as well as on its efforts to develop measures to ensure traceability of diamond production and trade in accordance with the minimum requirements of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, and calls upon the Kimberley Process to support the efforts of Côte d’Ivoire to prepare for implementation of the Certification Scheme;

Encourages the Kimberley Process to support the efforts of Liberia to strengthen its internal controls and address continuing challenges to the implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme;

Also encourages the Kimberley Process to continue to ensure, in accordance with resolution 65/137, follow-up to the progress achieved in the implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in West Africa, and notes with appreciation the efforts of Guinea to strengthen its certification system under the Swakopmund administrative decision on Guinea of 2009;5

Notes with appreciation the administrative decision of the 2011 plenary meeting, finding that the positive actions of Ghana to strengthen internal controls and prevent infiltration of illicit diamonds merited the termination of the special measures that had been in place under the Gaborone administrative decision of 2006, which called for Ghana to take steps to respond to the indications that it was not in substantial conformity with the minimum requirements of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, and conveying to Ghana the appreciation of the plenary for its decision to continue to record pictures of shipments as a best practice;2

Takes note of the decision of the 2011 plenary meeting regarding the continued participation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Kimberley Process,2 acknowledges the positive step represented by the submissions presented by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in response to the decision of the plenary meeting, and invites the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to continue its efforts to fully reintegrate into the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme;

Notes with appreciation the progress achieved by 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, and notes the decision by the 2011 plenary meeting that the ad hoc committee should continue to pursue its work by approaching international institutions, including the World Bank, to set up an administrative support mechanism, and the decision to create an ad hoc committee on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme review to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Certification Scheme as currently designed, identify priority areas for focus, and develop solutions to address the weaknesses of the Certification Scheme that can be proposed to future plenary sessions on an ongoing basis;2

Takes note of the report by the Central African Republic to the 2011 plenary meeting regarding the resumption of violence in the diamond-producing region of Bria in September 2011, and welcomes the rapid actions taken by the Chair of the Kimberley Process, the Working Group on Monitoring and the Government of the Central African Republic in that respect;

Acknowledges with appreciation the continued cooperation of the Kimberley Process with the World Customs Organization and the opening of the Organization’s network of Regional Offices for Capacity-Building to assist in training customs agents in the implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme minimum requirements;

Acknowledges the adoption by the 2011 plenary meeting of four administrative decisions in addition to those mentioned in paragraphs 19 and 21 above, namely, the administrative decision on Marange, Zimbabwe, and the decisions relating to clarifications and recommendations on applying the Kimberley Process written procedure, import confirmations of rough diamond shipments and the terms of reference of the Participation Committee;2

Takes note of the recommendations to applicant countries, prepared by the Participation Committee, on Kimberley Process Certification Scheme implementing legislation;

Welcomes the continuing work of the team of technical experts on Internet trading in order to monitor that transactions are in compliance with the minimum requirements of the Kimberley Process;

Notes with appreciation the continued work of the Kimberley Process, within its Working Group of Diamond Experts, on footprinting diamond production from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, the diamond-producing region of Bria in the Central African Republic, the Marange region in Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone;

Also notes with appreciation that the Kimberley Process rough diamonds statistics website managed by the United States of America has been improved significantly to make it a more efficient and effective system;

Encourages the Kimberley Process, through its Working Group on Artisanal Alluvial Production and with the assistance of the Diamond Development Initiative, to ensure implementation of the recommendations set forth in the Moscow declaration of 2005;

Reaffirms the importance of the tripartite nature of the Kimberley Process, regrets the absence of civil society at the 2011 plenary meeting, and welcomes the decision by the plenary to reaffirm its commitment to continue its constructive engagement with civil society in recognition of the role that civil society plays in the Kimberley Process;

Acknowledges with great appreciation the important contribution that the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2011, has made to curbing the trade in conflict diamonds, and welcomes the selection of the United States of America as Chair and South Africa as Vice-Chair for 2012;

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

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

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