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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/kimberley process

Kimberley Process conference on 5-8 November to look at progress in 2007 under European Commission's chairmanship

Brussels, 31/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - The annual conference of the Kimberley Process, which is being chaired this year by the European Commission, will be held in Brussels on 5-8 November 2007. The Kimberley Process was set up in 2000 and imposes diamond trade rules on all participating countries (production controls and export certificates) to prevent blood diamonds (diamonds mined in war-torn African countries and sold to raise funds for civil wars) reaching the global market. The...

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