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/56/263View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 37 Role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2002.

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4 versions · 2001–2014

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/68/128

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2014	A/RES/68/128	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	2,856	40%Compare
2007	A/RES/62/11	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 :	2,365	27%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/263	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	1,098	22%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/56	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	761	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Armed Conflicts Certificates of Origin Conferences Conflict Diamonds Diamonds Illicit Traffic Information Dissemination International Trade Law Report Preparation Sanctions Compliance Statistical Data

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the reports on the Kimberley Process² submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 55/56, and congratulates the participants in the Kimberley Process on their achievements thus far;

²See A/56/502, A/56/675 and A/56/775.

Recognizes that the proposed international certification scheme for rough diamonds would also help to ensure the effective implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions containing sanctions on the trade in conflict diamonds, and calls for the full implementation of existing Council measures targeting the illicit trade in rough diamonds that play a role in fuelling conflict;

Welcomes the detailed proposals for an international certification scheme for rough diamonds developed in the Kimberley Process and presented in the form of Kimberley Process working document 9/2001 (as amended), entitled “Essential elements of an international scheme of certification for rough diamonds, with a view to breaking the link between armed conflict and the trade in rough diamonds”, dated 29 November 2001,³ which provide a good basis for the proposed certification scheme;

³See A/56/775, annex VIII.

Encourages the Kimberley Process to resolve outstanding issues;

Emphasizes the importance of ensuring that the measures taken to implement the international certification scheme for rough diamonds are consistent with international law governing international trade;

Urges the finalization of the international certification scheme and its subsequent implementation as soon as possible, recognizing the urgency of the situation from a humanitarian and security standpoint;

Underlines the need, as an essential tool for the successful implementation of the proposed international certification scheme, for the collation and dissemination of relevant statistical data on the production of and international trade in rough diamonds;

Supports the extension of the work of the Kimberley Process until such time as an international certification scheme is adopted and its simultaneous implementation by participants begins;

Urges Member States to participate actively in the proposed international certification scheme, and stresses that the widest possible participation in the proposed international certification scheme is essential and should be encouraged and facilitated;

Welcomes the offer by the Government of Canada to host the next meeting of the Kimberley Process in Ottawa, in order to achieve further progress;

Requests the countries participating in the Kimberley Process to submit to the General Assembly, no later than at its fifty-seventh session, a report on progress made;

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

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