The United Nations has renewed its support for the Kimberley Process (KP), which has been outlawing blood diamonds since 2003.
Its General Assembly of 193 member nations adopted a resolution last Wednesday (3 April) without a vote, which recognized the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflicts.
A total of 121.5m carats were certified by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in 2022, with a value of $16.3bn, said Albert Chimbindi, UN ambassador for Zimbabwe, which chaired KP last year.
KP did, however, fail to make any headway at its last plenary meeting over calls by Ukraine to broaden the KP definition of conflict diamonds to include those funding the war by Russia.
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