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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 13 Role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, published in 2007.

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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	–

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32 subjects

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25 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its strong and continuing support for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme1 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;

Also 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, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone;

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 2006,⁴ and the decision of the General Council of 17 November 2006 granting an extension of the waiver until 31 December 2012;⁵

⁴World Trade Organization, document WT/L/518. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.

⁵World Trade Organization, document G/C/W/559/Rev.1. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Chair of the Kimberley Process submitted pursuant to resolution 61/28,⁶ 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, and recognizes, in particular, the progress made by Kimberley Process working groups, Participants and observers during 2007 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 both Governments and civil society in the 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;

⁶A/62/543, annex, and A/62/543/Add.1.

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;

Welcomes the admission in 2007 of Liberia, Turkey and the Congo, and recognizes the increased involvement of civil society organizations, in particular those from producer countries, in the Kimberley Process;

Also welcomes the initiative announced in Brussels to address the issue of rough diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire by engaging all relevant stakeholders, including Côte d’Ivoire, to enhance the control and monitoring of the trade in rough diamonds in their territories, enhancing regional cooperation to strengthen compliance with the Kimberley Process, and supporting applicant countries in the West Africa region in their efforts to join the Process as called for in Security Council resolution 1643 (2005) of 15 December 2005;

Notes with appreciation the cooperation of the Kimberley Process with the United Nations on the issue of diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire, including by assessing the volume of rough diamonds produced in and exported from Côte d’Ivoire as requested by Security Council resolution 1643 (2005), by sharing statistical data and other information with the Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire, and by taking action in line with paragraph 9 of resolution 61/28, in particular on the issues raised in reports of the Group of Experts,⁷ calls for the full implementation of the resolution on the subject of illicit diamond production in Côte d’Ivoire adopted by the plenary meeting of the Process held in Moscow from 15 to 17 November 2005, and encourages continued cooperation between the Process and the United Nations in tackling this issue;

⁷See S/2006/735 and S/2007/611.

Welcomes the considerable efforts of Ghana in 2007 to enhance the credibility of its internal controls by monitoring exports, licensing miners and producing accurate diamond production data, all with assistance from the European Commission, South Africa, the United States of America and the World Diamond Council, by way of follow-up to the administrative decision on Ghana, adopted by the plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process, held in Gabarone from 6 to 9 November 2006, and notes the decision adopted by the Brussels plenary meeting in 2007 to introduce a risk-based approach to the monitoring of Ghana’s rough diamond exports;

Notes with satisfaction that in line with paragraph 7 of its resolution 60/182 and paragraph 7 of its resolution 61/28, the preliminary development of “footprints”, size-frequency distribution diagrams, that characterize diamond production from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana has been undertaken, and encourages expeditious commencement of further work to develop similar footprints for other diamond producers, while thanking the European Commission for hosting a workshop on traceability techniques to identify the origin of diamonds through optical, physical and chemical analysis and encouraging all Participants to support further efforts to place diamond identification techniques on a sound scientific basis;

Welcomes the Declaration on internal controls in diamond trading and manufacturing centres endorsed by the Brussels plenary meeting, and encourages all such centres to carry out effective enforcement measures as part of their internal controls to ensure adequate government oversight over the trade in rough diamonds;

Notes with appreciation the efforts of the Working Group of the Kimberley Process of Artisanal Alluvial Producers, under the leadership of Angola, to analyse internal controls and the challenges faced by each country with respect to its artisanal alluvial diamond production, and plans to spread best practices and improve community involvement through a programme of field visits;

Welcomes the strengthening of the South American subgroup of Artisanal Alluvial Producers, and its intention to meet to discuss regional cooperation on the challenges faced in controlling diamond production and trade, and also welcomes the invitation extended by Venezuela for a visit led by the Chair of the Kimberley Process to take place during the first quarter of 2008;

Warmly welcomes the admission of Liberia as a Participant in the Kimberley Process in May 2007, following three separate Kimberley Process expert missions to advise and assess its system for controlling diamonds, notes with appreciation the considerable support and technical assistance provided by the Kimberley Process community prior to the decision by the Security Council to lift diamond sanctions, and continues to encourage all those in a position to do so to assist Liberia with implementation of Kimberley Process standards;

Notes with appreciation the considerable progress made in carrying out the recommendations arising out of the three-year review of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme adopted by the Gabarone plenary meeting in 2006, and notes that they should contribute to the strengthening and consolidation of the Process;

Recognizes that the peer review mechanism and the collection and submission of statistical data are critical monitoring tools, essential for effective implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, and in this respect:

Notes with satisfaction that virtually all Kimberley Process Participants, as well as several applicants, have received peer review visits, and that several countries and a regional economic integration organization have already invited a second review visit, and calls upon other Participants to invite further visits;

Welcomes the strengthening of the peer review mechanism by the adoption of a revised administrative decision on peer review;

Notes with satisfaction the publication of Kimberley Process trade and production data, welcomes the progress made towards the collection and submission of complete and accurate statistical reports on the production of and trade in rough diamonds, and encourages all of the Process Participants to continue to enhance the quality of data, and to respond promptly to Process analyses of these data;

Notes with satisfaction the systematization of the work of the Kimberley Process with respect to continuing to develop transparent and uniform rules and procedures and introducing a mechanism for consultation and coordination in the Process;

Notes with appreciation the assistance and capacity-building efforts extended by various donors, and encourages other donors to provide financial and technical expertise to Kimberley Process Participants to help them to develop tighter monitoring and control measures;

Acknowledges with great appreciation the important contribution that the European Community, as Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2007, has made to the efforts to curb the trade in conflict diamonds, and welcomes the selection of India as Chair and Namibia as Vice-Chair of the Process for 2008;

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

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

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