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Accord on ‘conflict diamond’ smuggling
Diamond-producing countries and the diamond industry agreed on Tuesday to take unprecedented measures to stop the smuggling of “conflict diamonds” from West Africa. A resolution on Ivory Coast was unanimously approved at the Moscow plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process, the UN-backed international scheme to stop the illegal trading of gems... Global Witness, the non-governmental organisation that earlier on Tuesday released a report criticising the Kimberley Process for “lack of action”, welcomed the breakthrough.