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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8057

27 September 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/africa
Panel of experts presses Union to strengthen controls on imports of "conflict diamonds" from African countries

Brussels, 26/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - A broad debate was held by a panel of experts on Tuesday at the European Parliament on the responsibility of the European Union in the international trade of "conflict diamonds" and its duty to remedy the situation by imposing tighter controls on imports from African countries in conflict. A meeting was convened on the initiative of Dutch NGO NIZA (the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa) belonging to the international diamond campaign called...

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