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2010年9月10日

著者:
Claire Adler, Financial Times

Kimberley Process: Spotlight on some blood-stained stones

The celebrity-studded war crimes trial of…Charles Taylor…has turned the world’s attention back to conflict diamonds…Now, troubles in Zimbabwe’s diamond sector have sparked a debate…about the future of the Kimberley Process…“The Kimberley Process has not fulfilled its potential as a vehicle for change…” according to a Global Witness…Martin Rapaport, a diamond industry price and information provider…is campaigning for ethical business practice…“The situation is a dream for branding companies. I’d like to see ethical brand warfare...” He claims that while trading Marange diamonds may be legal in certain jurisdictions, two Zimbabwean companies are under sanctions by the US, UK and the EU: the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation which owns 50 per cent of Mbada and Canadile, and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, which controls the sales of the diamonds. Sanctions could make trading with these companies illegal by citizens of these countries, says Mr Rapaport…