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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8413
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto

WTO give go-ahead to national measures against "war diamonds"

Brussels / Geneva, 04/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has given the go-ahead to national measures taken by certain Member States to prohibit "war diamonds" from their international trade in the framework of the Kimberley Process (see EUROPE of 12 February, p.10). Once ratified by the General Council, the WTO's supreme body, this decision will enable the 11 countries that have asked for this (including the United States, which recently accused the Union of...

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